"Many a man had taken the first..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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“Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.”
“Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.”
“Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.”
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“If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.”
“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.”
“My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.”
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“Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.”
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.”