Sad is sleep
Sad is sleep. What a satire to behold the man who has been astonishing a company with his assurances of the infinite faculties & destiny of man, nodding in his chair.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:490
Reading Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughts on reading the journals, essays and letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Resources
- I hate to be conspicuous for blame or praise. It spoils thought.
- Of proverbs…they give comfort & encouragement, aid & abetting to daily action
- When a man meets a man in the highway strangers to each other…
- Is it not better to live in Revolution than to live in dead times?
- All spiritual activity is abridgment, selection