 ... 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 his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He...  Essays - Page 69by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
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...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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