Quote #291
I no more remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders…
- If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- It is an amiable illusion, which the shape of our planet prompts, that every man is at the top of the world.
- Do not believe that you can possibly escape the reward of your action.
- Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
- A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
- My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle.