"There are men whose language is strong..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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“The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.”
“Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.”
“Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.”
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“All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.”
“Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.”
“However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.”
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“An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.”
“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
“For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.”