“I could no longer tell where I stopped and Eliza began, or where Eliza and I stopped and the Universe began.”
― Slapstick
― Slapstick
“I said that all the damaging excesses of Americans in the past were motivated by loneliness rather than a fondness for sin.”
― Slapstick
― Slapstick
“Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last one maxim.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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