To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or compan…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.1069, Delphi Classics
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