Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of Being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of Being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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