I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil. In Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Before emails, before texts, before instant messages—there were letters, speeches, and essays. Handwritten, deliberate, and profound. These are the intimate conversations, powerful orations, and thoughtful reflections from history's greatest minds: the love letters that broke hearts, the speeches that moved nations, the essays that challenged thinking, and the ideas that sparked revolutions.
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I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers... I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries
The happy man is one whose reason recommends to him every act. The wise man's soul ought to be such as would be proper for a god—uplifted, fearless, and greater than his troubles.
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.
Our wise men have warned us, in solemn accents of Sanskrit, to talk away as much as we like, but never to write it down. There are proofs, many of them, that I have habitually disregarded this sage advice, following it only when called upon to reply.
The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that man has invented. Under the influence of its fumes the whole people can carry out its systematic programme of the most virulent self-seeking without being in the least aware of its moral perversion.