Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Diversity
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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
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We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
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If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.
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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.
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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
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Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
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God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
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