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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
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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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
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Happy is the hearing man unhappy the speaking man.
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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
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