“ Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroism (1841). copy citation
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|---|---|
| Source | Heroism |
| Topic | health sport |
| Date | 1841 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | in "Essays: First Series" |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series/Heroism |
Context
“Juletta tells the stout captain and his company, —
Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye.
Master. Very likely,
'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye."
These replies are sound and whole. Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.”
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