 ... from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 76by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
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...hear God Himself unless He speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul." "He feels no shame in not studying a profession for he does not postpone his life, but lives already." " Discontent is the want of self-reliance." Quote at random, you cannot fail to alight upon a significant... | |
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