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title: "4 Life Cultivation Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/insist-on-yourself-never-imitate-your-own-gift-you-can-present-every/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/insist-on-yourself-never-imitate-your-own-gift-you-can-offer-with-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/we-russians-have-assigned-ourselves-no-other-task-in-life-but-the/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

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> [Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/insist-on-yourself-never-imitate-your-own-gift-you-can-present-every-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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