Quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Works and Days," Society and Solitude (1870).
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