{"text":"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. . . . The force of character is cumulative.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["character","conformity","life"],"id":6428,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"}