Insist upon yourself. Be original. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance, — by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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love beauty age youth

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