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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. ✨ Journal (1867)
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.231, Penguin
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). Emerson in His Journals, p.292, Harvard University Press

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