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Skills Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has…
- Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
- When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit;…
- The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character…
- Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
- The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his…
- Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty…
- I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of…
- Skill to do comes of doing.
- It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires…
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