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> [In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-actions-of-enthusiasm-this-drawback-appears-but-in-those-lower/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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