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Hat speech;<br />
the clear high melody of it went tingling<br />
<br />
through my heart;--I said to my wife, "There, woman!" She read;<br />
<br />
and returned, and charges me to return for answer,<br />
"that there had been nothing met with like it since Schiller went silent." My brave Emerson! And all this has been lying<br />
silent, quite tranquil in him, these seven years, and the "vociferous platitude" dinning his ears on all sides, and he quietly answering no word; and a whole world of Thought<br />
has silently built itself in these calm depths, and, the day being come, says quite<br />
softly, as if it were a common thing, "Yes, I _am_<br />
here too." Miss Martineau tells me, "Some say it is inspired, some say it is mad." Exactly so; no say could be suitabler.<br />
But for you, my dear friend, I say and pray heartily: May God grant you strength; for you have a _fearful_ work<br />
<br />
to do! Fearful I call it; and<br />
<br />
yet it is great, and the greatest. O for<br />
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God's sake _keep yourself still quiet!_ Do not hasten to write; you cannot be too slow about it. Give no ear to any<br />
man's praise or censure; know that that is _not_ it: on the one side is as Heaven if you have strength to keep silent, and climb unseen; yet on the other side, yawning always at one's right-hand and one's left, is the frightfulest Abyss and Pandemonium!<br />
See Fenimore Cooper;--poor Cooper, he is _down in it;_ and had a climbing faculty too. Be steady, be quiet, be in no haste; and God speed you<br />
well! My space<br />
is done. And so adieu, for this time. You must write soon again. My copy of the _Oration_ has never come: how is t
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