It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion-it is easy in solitude to live after your own but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought the one, the many.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
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Slavery it is that makes slavery freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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Sentimentalists. . . adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel. . . .
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God enters a private door into every individual.
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