"The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Hero Quotes #Soul Quotes #Youth Quotes

“The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”
“I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.”
“The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.”
“For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.”
“Reince has produced a fully funded, superbly staffed and technologically advanced strategy to position the GOP to win in '14 and '16, and he has done so via an inclusive outreach to all branches of the party while staying out of the bunker and in the MSM on a 24/7 basis. The Republicans cannot ask for more from the RNC than they have gotten and the political battlefield is as well prepared as it has been since 2004 as a result.”
“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”
“Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?”
“They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.”

Source : Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.135, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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