Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDrudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson