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Quotation from Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (spoken by Emerson)

Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), X. Circles (Project Gutenberg #2944)

Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Near the end of Circles, Emerson praises the abandonment by which the soul draws a new circle.

Citation: "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), X. Circles (Project Gutenberg #2944). (id emerson-essays-q8)

Portrait: Ralph Waldo Emerson by Josiah Johnson Hawes 1857, Josiah Johnson Hawes, Public domain.

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