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 would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

  ~ Francis Bacon quotes

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• Pay no attention to what a critic says. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

  ~ Jean Sibelius quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Critics, Honor

• Hurry was the order of the day, every day.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

• An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

  ~ G.K. Chesterton quotes from On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered

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• The cornerstone of the Thrive Diet is high net-gain foods. It’s that simple. By eating more high net-gain foods, your energy will rise, body fat will decrease, mental clarity will be enhanced, and cravings for refined foods will fade.

  ~ Brendan Brazier quotes from The Thrive Diet

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