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#1

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: calling, career, career-counseling, find-your-passion, fortune, happiness, happiness-fulfillment-desire, happiness-life, job, job-search, life-coaching, life-purpose, passionate-living, purpose, purpose-in-life, pursue, pursue-your-passion, pursuit, pursuit-of-happiness, ralph-waldo-emerson, self-expression, work

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#2

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
― ralph waldo emerson

tags: transcendentalism, transcendentalists

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#3

“Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

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#4

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: society

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#5

“Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series

tags: censorship

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#6

“Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: moderation

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#7

“As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: aging-well

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#8

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: beauty

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#9

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: wine

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#10

“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

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#11

“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#12

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#13

“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: humor, writing

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#14

“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: food

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#15

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

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#16

“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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