We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.

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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. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.

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Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series · August 1, 2007 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

self-trust individualism self-reliance

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Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.

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