Quote #7347
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not,...
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Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if...
Quote #7452
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite...
Quote #31124
Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
Quote #8251
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which...
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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to...
Quote #11969
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
Quote #27348
Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and temporal.
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I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,…they are the ones...
Quote #20669
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.