"Sugar is not so sweet to the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
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“By going out of your mind, you come to your senses”
“Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.”
“The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.”