If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

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honesty speaking-your-mind fearlessness

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there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

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