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Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
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
Waldo Emerson
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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.
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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.
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I like man, but not men.
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