Date: 1793
"If, with the 'mind's eye,' she had a taste to travel through distant kingdoms and take a retrospective view of past events, she might nourish that fondness for variety so predominant with human nature, and in the indulgence of this disposition be happy."
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Date: September 10, 1836
"What tedious training, day after day, year after year, never ending, to form the common sense; what continual reproduction of annoyances, inconveniences, dilemmas; what rejoicing over us of little men; what disputing of prices, what reckonings of interest, — and all to form the Hand of the mind;...
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: September 10, 1836
"When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added, grace and expression."
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