Famous Quotes | Sport is the bloom and glow of a...

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Heroism,” Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).

Categories: Essayist, Greatness, Joy, Philosopher

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