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“The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.”

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Book:Essays and Lectures
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“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
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“Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an”

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Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition
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“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.”

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Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures
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