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:-

• It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Sin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Life, Compensation, Try

• Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Fear, Death, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  ~ Ingrid Bergman quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Stop, Nature, Become

• To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

  ~ Henri Bergson quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Goals

• Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

  ~ Benjamin Franklin quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Divine Within, Talent

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