"Do the thing and you will have..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing and you will have the power.
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“Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.”
“Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.”
“But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.”
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“....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.”
“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”
“I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.”