Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.


Select Essays and Poems (ed. 1808)


When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other;...

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other;...

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other;...

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other;...