Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is
Imitation is suicide.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.