Waldo Emerson

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    We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    A lock-jaw that bends a man’s head back to his heels, hydrophobia, that makes him bark at his wife and babes, insanity, that makes him eat grass; war, plague; cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Love prays. It makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)