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Emerson quotes
9 January 2008 18:43A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
