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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
One mans justice is anothers injustice one mans beauty anothers ugliness one mans wisdom anothers folly. View quote
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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. View quote
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. View quote
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. View quote
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. View quote
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. View quote
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Life is a progress, and not a station. View quote
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. View quote
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. View quote
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. View quote
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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. View quote
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. View quote
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. View quote
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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. View quote
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. View quote
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. View quote
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. View quote
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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. View quote
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. View quote
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. View quote
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. View quote
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A great man is always willing to be little. View quote
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