emerson said that. interesting to think about.
http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm
as is this. i think its pretty important, seeing as im graduating. or rather, its still important even though i didnt graduate. ho hum. whats the point of doing things on time anyway? It all falls within something grander.
anyway. i like what he has to say here. be inspired. do. learn everything. dont be just one thing. character over intellect. know what you know, then use it for good. patience. youre going to be poor sometimes, youre going to have to struggle. youre going to be alone sometimes, youre going to have to struggle. respect that it all comes from the dirt and the dust. there is a universal mind but lots of individual scribes. <-realise that we see the world through this lens. be new. be something.
"The man has never lived that can feed us ever. The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person, who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire. It is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily; and, now out of the throat of Vesuvius, illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples. It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men."
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"Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these,
— but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, — some of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."
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"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all. A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."
some people look down on the phrase 'a jack of all trades but a master of none,' as it may apply to a person. i quite like the notion.
All i can do, is think of this picture. Asher durand. 'kindred spirits'. how great does that place look? Pretty good I think. and its made even better when listening to 'ode to lrc' by the band of horses.
I feel so good.
