Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

  ~ John Dyrden quotes

• My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

  ~ Henry David Thoreau quotes

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• Study anyone who's great, and you'll find that they apprenticed to a master, or several masters. Therefore, if you want to achieve greatness, renown, and superlative success, you must apprentice to a master.

  ~ Robert Allen quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Success, Greatness, Great, Master, Rent, Achieve

• If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

  ~ Carl Sagan quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Create, Universe

• And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  ~ Kahlil Gibran quotes from The Prophet

  Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Intimacy

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