Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.


Prose Works (ed. 1872)


What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most...

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most...

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most...

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most...