Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The religion that is afraid of science dishoners God and commits suicide.
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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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What is the imagination Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy only the precursor of the reason.
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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