Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Essays: Second Series
Wisdom & life
“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass…”
- Author
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Work
- Essays: Second Series
- Year
- 1844
- Chapter / part
- Experience
- Length
- 39 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #2945
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Ralph Waldo Emerson died in 1882, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1844. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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