"The world of men show like a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
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“We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."”
“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
“Morality is the object of government.”
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“Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.”
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