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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self-Reliance and Other Essays
The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and health of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Within Man Is The Soul Of The Whole; The Wise Silence; The Universal Beauty – Meditation, Yoga and World Peace
In 1841, the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson published his most profound essay, ‘Self-Reliance’. In it, he set himself the task of trying to understand where greatness comes from, in business, government, science and the arts – and his answer was touchingly close to home. Geniuses are those who know how to introspect and trust in their own
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Self-Reliance
The reader who would dig to the philosophical foundations of this is advised to read Hegel and Emerson for himself.
Wallace D. Wattles • The Science of Getting Rich
‘If one advances confidently,’ Thoreau had written in Walden, ‘in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.’