#173 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Don't Be a Hobgoblin!

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

~ G.K. Chesterton Quotes

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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character. Now to no other man can its wisdom appear as it does to him, for every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else. Therefore just and wise men take umbrage at his act, until after some little time be past: then they see it to be in unison with their acts. All prudent men see that the action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from Heroism

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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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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.

~ Walt Whitman Quotes

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