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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
         

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.


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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.



The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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