Emerson

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“The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things—”He saw that they were good.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer’s boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith’s.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)