Character

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful to be honorable to be compassionate to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Ralph Waldo Emerson Character (1844)</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Character (1844) by Ralph Waldo Emerson is connected to the author's other writings in which he attempted to define the values that are central to the philosophical system he was creating. Character according to Emerson is a form of greatness which can be perceived by its effects more than by any direct manifestation. Evidence of character is a cheerful self-sufficiency as well as by a person's incessant growth of the soul.</span></p><p><br></p>