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Quotation #25925 from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", 1841
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)  

Notes about this Quotation

  • This is often misquoted as "Speak what you think in words as hard as cannon-balls...", but the original text of Emerson's Essay uses the wording shown here. [note by Michael Moncur, August 25, 2004]

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