“ An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836). copy citation
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Source | Nature |
| Topic | fox lion |
| Date | 1836 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nature,_Addresses_and_Lectures/Nature |
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“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture. An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch. A lamb is innocence; a snake is subtle spite; flowers express to us the delicate affections. Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love. Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.”
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