So far as a person thinks they are free.
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We never touch but at points.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, nor a mark of haste, or botching, or a second thought but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
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He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
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If we live truly, we shall see truly.
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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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