Lary WallaceinWizard’s KeyEmerson on beliefBelief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. — “Montaigne; or, the Skeptic”Jun 17Jun 17
Lary WallaceinWizard’s KeyEmerson on the power of fables[W]hen Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts; — we take the cheerful hint…Jun 16Jun 16
Lary WallaceinWizard’s KeyEmerson on the studious classThe studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the…Jun 15Jun 15
Lary WallaceinWizard’s KeyEmerson on power and formHuman life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept, if we would have it sweet and sound.Jun 14Jun 14
Lary WallaceinWizard’s KeyEmerson on fallingLet us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. When the fruit is despatched, the…Jun 13Jun 13
Lary WallaceinWizard’s KeyEmerson on intemperanceWho cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown, if he falls asleep in his chair? or if he laugh and giggle? or…Jun 12Jun 12
Lary WallaceinWizard’s KeyEmerson on temperamentTemperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature?Jun 11Jun 11
Lary WallaceinWizard’s KeyEmerson on persuasionIf I am willful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority…Jun 11Jun 11
Lary WallaceinWizard’s KeyEmerson on pretensionPretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nor drove…Jun 9Jun 9
Lary WallaceinWizard’s KeyEmerson on social complianceWe foolishly think in our days of sin, that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society, to its dress, its breeding, and…Jun 8Jun 8