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— Ralph Waldo Emerson"Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience."
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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
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