Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We as we read must become Greeks Romans Turks priest and king martyr and executioner must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience or we shall learn nothing rightly.
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Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson