Well, said Red Jacket to someone complaining that he had not enough time, I suppose you have all there is.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence
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The chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do the best we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation when memory came, it was experience when mind Acted, it was knowledge when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
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Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
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If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Mrs. Yule stated in The Docket, Feb. 1912, that she copied this in her handbook from a lecture delivered by Emerson. The mouse-trap quotation was the occasion of a long controversy, owing to Elbert Hubbards claim to its authorship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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