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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's Library
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Dare to love God without mediator or veil.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
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Whatever limits us, we call Fate.
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
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"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
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