Emerson
"Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever
variety of actions, so they be each honest and
natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions
will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.
These varieties are lost sight of when seen from a little
distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency
unites them all. The voyage of the best ship
is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. This is only
microscopic criticism. See the line from a sufficient
distance, and it straightens itself to the average
tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself
and will explain your other genuine actions. Your
conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what
you have already done singly will justify you now."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'ON SELF-RELIANCE'
variety of actions, so they be each honest and
natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions
will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.
These varieties are lost sight of when seen from a little
distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency
unites them all. The voyage of the best ship
is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. This is only
microscopic criticism. See the line from a sufficient
distance, and it straightens itself to the average
tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself
and will explain your other genuine actions. Your
conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what
you have already done singly will justify you now."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'ON SELF-RELIANCE'