Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world should last his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Letter to Thomas Carlyle (1835)
