Camp Brightwood, June 4, 1863.
I think it all comes back to my old maxim, “keep healthy and
well-balanced,” cut off instincts only when they are growing too long or too
thick for other instincts: a man is meant to act and to undertake, to try and
succeed in his undertakings, to take all means which he believes necessary to
success ; but he must not let his undertakings look too large, and make a slave
of him; still less must he let the means. He must keep free and grow
integrally.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 253
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