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Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

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Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke Quotes

“Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.”

“We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.”