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the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

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If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

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Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

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Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

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The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.

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Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

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