"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new powe...












The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
"Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a h...
"Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting ...
"Do the thing and you will have the power.
"Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
"Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to rig...
"The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.