Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition ... I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways ... Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, he is my creature, and [in spite of] all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.”
“Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.”
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”