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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for...
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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of...
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The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality,...
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Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
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We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork,...
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the...
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Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into...
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will...