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.
Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops?no, but the kind of man the country turns out.