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" Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. "
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" If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. "
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" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "
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" He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. "
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