An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Two years after his 5-year-old son died, a father finds he has lost “a beautiful estate,” and no more. The grief will not come close enough to hurt the way it should. “I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.”

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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