Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A Boy Is In The Parlour What The Pit Is In The Playhouse; Independent, Irresponsible, Looking Out From His Corner On Such People And Facts As Pass By, He Tries And Sentences Them On Their Merits, In The Swift, Summary Way Of Boys, As Good, Bad, Interesting, Silly, Eloquent, Troublesome. He Cumbers Himself Never About Consequences, About Interests: He Gives An Independent, Genuine Verdict. You Must Court Him: He Does Not Court You. But The Man Is, As It Were, Clapped Into Jail By His Consciousness. As Soon As He Has Once Acted Or Spoken With Eclat, He Is A Committed Person, Watched By The Sympathy Or The Hatred Of Hundreds, Whose Affections Must Now Enter Into His Account. There Is No Lethe For This. Ah, That He Could Pass Again Into His Neutrality! Who Can Thus Avoid All Pledges, And Having Observed, Observe Again From The Same Unaffected, Unbiased, Unbribable, Unaffrighted Innocence, Must Always Be Formidable.
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