It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.
But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 'tis likely his trade or politics in quite another.
—from Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural History of Intellect
IMAGE: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Tree by the Brook (c. 1831)
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