He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks, in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.Charles Dickens
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The power of words is the greatest power on earth. A person who can make you laugh with his jokes, can make you cry with his stories, can make you happy with his sweet words, can make you sad when he makes you cry. Words are powerful not only in how they can make us feel but in what they bring about. A person's words can bring us happiness or misery, and in this quote, Emerson makes it clear that words are far more powerful than we think.
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