All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.


The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1870)


All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.