Emerson's affections quote

So many life duties, distractions, planting garlic, picking the last of the ripe tomatoes, laying floor tile to finish the entry-way, going to the junk yard for truck parts, left my hat there, under some rusting hulk -- excuses. But, I think of Emerson's quote, "The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night, all tragedies, all ennui's, vanish -- all duties even."