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Essays: Second Series Quotes

Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws. She keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them. She arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth, and at the same time she arms and equips another animal to destroy it.

Source:(James Munroe and Co., ed. 1844), Essay VI. Nature, Page 196
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essays: Second Series Quotes)
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  • Writer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1844
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