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• Character is that which can do without success. -- Emerso
• In every work of genius we recognise our rejected thoughts. -- Emerson's Observatio
• That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb
  or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation....
• We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good
  o far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing...
• Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil
  in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries *by a government*, which we might expect in a country *without government*, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer....
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startles us. -- Emerso
• We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...