Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All diseases run into one, old age.
- The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Every artist was first an amateur.