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There are a few things I re-read every year. One is “Self Reliance” by Emerson. Here’s what stood out to me this time:
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for https://t.co/1jqZs7VMGJ
Emerson:
... See more"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majest
Essays and Lectures: (Nature: Addresses and Lectures, Essays: First and Second Series, Representative Men, English Traits, and The Conduct of Life)
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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers,—under all thes
... See moreRalph Waldo Emerson • Self Reliance (Illustrated)
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Austin Kleon • 100 quotes that helped me write
“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 cumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Farnam Street • Leave Your Crown in the Garage
