Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
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The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according to the work or the place
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