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“All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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