Thursday, September 25, 2008

Ralph Waldo Emerson













"Give all to love; obey thy heart."



"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could."



"Every sweet has it's sour; every evil it's good."



"Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm."



"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."


"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."



"Colleges hate geniuses, just as covents hate saints."



"Character is higher than intellect...a great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think."



"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."



"As we grow old...the beauty steals inward."



"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."



"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver for five minutes longer."



"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."







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