Sunday, April 15, 2007

in the shade of the cloud of arrows

From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson
1847, April, undated

What you have learned and done is safe and fruitful. Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.
Emerson is 43 years old.

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