Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father’s. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, ‘Thou must,’ The youth whispers, ‘I can.
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