Source, in full
Reported in Emerson, Journal LIX (1868); E. W. Emerson and W. E. Forbes, eds., Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. x (1914), p. 227. Translated in Burton Stevenson, ed., The Home Book of Quotations (New York, 1934), p. 1539
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