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Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson,

"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."



By:

Ralph Waldo Emerson (more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson or books by/about Ralph Waldo Emerson)


(1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, and poet

Source:

Letters and Social Aims (1876)

Categories:

Speech, Hypocrisy, Honor

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