"Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
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“I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.”
“Rude poets of the tavern hearth,squandering your unquoted mirth,which keeps the ground, and never soars,while jake retorts, and reuben roars;tough and screaming, as birch-bark,goes like bullet to its mark;while the solid curse and jeernever balk the waiting ear.”
“Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.”