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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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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
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I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
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We walk alone in the world.
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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
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