Ability quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Ability category:

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"Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence."
"Skill to do comes of doing."
"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."
"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."