Reaching one's potential

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Considerations by the Way

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Reaching one's potential

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Considerations by the Way The Conduct of Life

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Considerations by the Way." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Considerations by the Way." The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

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Reaching one's potential

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Language

English

Time

1827 1820s 19th century

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter." The Edinburgh Review, June 1827.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy-deep down. All is well.

Katherine Mansfield

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Understanding oneself Reaching one's potential

Author

Katherine Mansfield

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Mansfield, Katherine. Diary entry. 17 Oct. 1922.

Current Citation

Mansfield, Katherine. Journal of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry. Persephone, 2006.