Emerson

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    An endless imbroglio
    Is law and the world,—
    Then first shalt thou know,
    That in the wild turmoil,
    Horsed on the Proteus,
    Thou ridest to power,
    And to endurance.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Thus to him, to this school-boy under the bending dome of day, is suggested, that he and it proceed from one root; one is leaf and one is flower; relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein. And what is that Root? Is not that the soul of his soul?—A thought too bold,—a dream too wild.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)