It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our facultie…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems, p.58, Bantam Classics
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