Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
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For thus the wood-gods murmured in my ear,Dost love our manners?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned ourdisapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self-control is the rule.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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