Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
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Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done single will justify you now.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action.
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew
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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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