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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes:

Ocupation: Essayist

Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Birthday: May 25

Death: April 27

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.365

topic: Men, Feet, Giving, Legs And Feet

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