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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts,...
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Sometimes … when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his...
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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live…
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument...
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be...
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Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to...
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Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence...
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.