It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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Self trust is the essence of heroism.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which must yet have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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