It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Today's quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson; the picture was taken at the Linnean Society last summer.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's a good one. I'm gonna go write that down.
Do you know where Emerson said/wrote that?