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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see the world is full.
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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
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The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.
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Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
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Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
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