"It was high counsel that I once..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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“There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.”
“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
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“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
“It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.”
“One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me”