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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do what...
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.
Source: In Quotations of Wit and Wisdom, ed. & John W. Garder et al., 1975.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.