Emerson

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    There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me, is to know how shallow it is.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The world is his, who has money to go over it.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)