Ralph Waldo Emerson disse mesmo «We aim above the mark to hit the mark.»?

Ralph Waldo Emerson disse mesmo «We aim above the mark to hit the mark.»?

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… tricity the air would rot, and without this violence of direction which men and women have, without a spice of bigot and fanatic, no excitement, no efficiency. We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. And when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play, but blabs the secret;--how then? is the bird flown? O no, the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms,
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson, ¶347 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #16643 · fonte

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