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:-

• Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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• There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

  ~ Marilyn Vos Savant quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage

• It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.

  ~ Mahatma Gandhi quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, God, Poor, History

• Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

  ~ Francis Bacon quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Experience, Truth

• For non-conformity the world whips you with its displeasure.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Self-Reliance

  Famous Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Self-reliance

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