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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.
         

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.


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

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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

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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.

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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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