No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. from Self-Reliance.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade but the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty that trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism that it makes peace and keeps peace, and it will abolish slavery
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are for nothing but to inspire.
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