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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
         

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.


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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.



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



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