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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-​Reliance,” Essays: First Series, quoted from the 1847 edition.

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