 Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes;...  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 29by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
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