"What you do thunders above your head..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
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“Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.”
“The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.”
“Free should be the scholar - free and brave.”
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“She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.”
“For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.”
“It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.”