Wisdom is to finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours.
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Our faith comes in moments ... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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