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“There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.”
“Be not the slave of your own past ... plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old.”
“That which we call sin in others is experiment for us”
“No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back”
“It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in”
“The finished man of the world must eat every apple once.”
“Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.”
“Then the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out/ I went into a spin and I started to shout/ I've been hit. This is it. This is it! I . . T . . . IT!”
“The course of everything goes to teach us faith.”
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