Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunder…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims, p.52, Harvard University Press
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims, p.52, Harvard University Press

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