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:-

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  ~ Samuel Johnson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Wisdom, Samuel Johnson, Wise

• Better to have loved and lost, than to never loved at all.

  ~ St. Augustine quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Better

• Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

  ~ Edward J. Koch quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Confidence, Change, War, Decisions, Decision, Believe

• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

  ~ Samuel Johnson quotes from Life of Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational Quotes on: Friendship, Samuel Johnson, New, Life, Friend, Friends, Should, Will

• Roark: "I don't make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I'm an utter egotist.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes from The Fountainhead

  Inspirational Quotes on: Think, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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