Miscellaneous quotes
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Harlan Ellison1934–2018“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967)I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Fortune of the Republic (1878)Good bye, proud world! I’m going home;
Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Poems (1847), Good-bye, st. 1- Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality
- Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
And striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), May-Day
