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Main Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
- What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with…
- We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim…
- Self-command is the main elegance.
- The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do
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