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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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