Our chief want in life,

Our chief want in life, is, somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The Conduct of Life, 1860
Chapter VII "Considerations by the Way"

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...all men live by truth, and stand

...all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"The Poet"
Essays: Second Series, 1844

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