What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has bee…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emer … ▶
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims, p.107, Harv … ▶
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). Essays, p.147, 1st World Publishing
Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

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