[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash t
[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand…. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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