Quotemeal: Dec. 31st, 1959

Thursday, December 31, 1959

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
— Gaston Bachelard —
"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all."
— Martin Luther —
"Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness."
— John Climacus —
"He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life."
— Johann K. Lavater —

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Illustration of Ralph Waldo Emerson — "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

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