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Compensation
Ralph Waldo Emerson(1841)
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Pages: 30
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-14-043692-1
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Compensation explores the law of cause and effect in moral and spiritual life, arguing that every action has its inevitable consequence.
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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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Compensation
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
The dice of God are always loaded. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.