"When I go into the garden with..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
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“Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.”
“I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.”
“Do the thing and you will have the power.”
More on Self Reliance
“Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.”
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
“Don't feel sorry for me.”
More on Work
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”
“The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.”
“If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.”