Emerson

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“We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Good-bye to flattery’s fawning face,
To grandeur, with his wise grimace,
To upstart wealth’s averted eye,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man. On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)