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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson