“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compensation (Primary source)
Emerson explores the law of compensation, suggesting that every action (cause) has a corresponding reaction (effect), meaning that there is no free lunch, but we get what we give.
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The years teach much which the days never know.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The law of nature is, do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
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“Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“The bell calls others to church, but itself never minds the sermon.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary sourceCause and Effect Enslavement Justice Evil