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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong.
  There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right....
• We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Journal...
• But you're still of the same nature.
• The years teach much which the days never know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Experience
• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. -- Emerso
• The dice of God are always loaded. -- Emerso
• EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order.
  The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other -- which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in the pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of a dog....
• The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine.
  The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible....
• Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile