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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether read more

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.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Pursuit Quotes,
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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,
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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,
Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through
Under the Andes to the Cape,
Suffered no savor of the earth to escape.

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With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation read more

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist
that there is no such thing as progress.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Progress Quotes,
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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad.

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad.

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Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Sanity Quotes,
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