Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.
More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways; I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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