Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.


The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1883)


Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.