"Thought is the seed of action; but action……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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