God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Take what you please you can never have both.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

repose means "no action" or inaction

"Emerson was born in Boston, Mass., son of the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister, from a well-known line of ministers."

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