Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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Be and not seem.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
What a new face courage puts on everything.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
When it is darkest, men see the stars.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!
Whoever thought of writing the first love poem, and whoever thought of praising Jehovah with a song; had a point on how to live a pure and noble life.
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