Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phras…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.2431, Delphi Classics
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerso … ▶
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.2431, Delphi Classics

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