"This body, full of faults, Has yet..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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“To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.”
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“I don't stand back and judge - I do.”
“"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.”
“You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”