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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

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The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

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Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

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Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

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You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

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All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

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Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

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Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

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Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

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I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

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Many a good man I have seen go under.

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