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It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
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I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.
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The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
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Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
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We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
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We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.
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You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
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Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
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War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
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TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.
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