Nature is no sentimentalist—does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman, but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Modern

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From 'Fate' in 'The Conduct of Life'

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1860

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Controversial

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