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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.
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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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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