Be and not seem.
More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Foxes are so cunning Because they are not strong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To think is to act.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it. . . . Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
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