The proposal for my tapestry is about disgrace, although reflection rather goes along with it.
Stronger than before
When your life becomes a war
Set The World On Fire
Proud in all you are
Showing every scar
As your badge of honor
When you can’t take anymore
Of what they’re living for
Set The World On Fire - Andrew Biersack, Black Veil Brides, Set The World On Fire.
This is a quote from the song Set The World On Fire. This quote overall shows a reflection, but a different perspective of 'disgrace'. Many people view such anxieties, and scars as disgraceful and embarrassing. Andy is saying that you should not let such things rule your life, and reflects upon the actions of many of his fans. He is trying to show acceptance, and help his fans to get over feeling their disgrace.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
This quote shows a feeling of disgrace from the author, because he relates persecution with contradiction. Overall, I believe he refers to feelings of dread, and annoyance with people who assume they are being persecuted, when they aren't. He seems to have a feeling of reluctance to admit mere contradiction, and does not want to falter, and assume things are worse than they really are. He believes the assumptions are mistakes, quite awful, and vulgar, mistakes. I personally interpreted this as advice to never delude yourself with thinking your life is so terrible, and that people are out to get you. It appears disgraceful in itself to believe that.
some extra quotes for pre-tapestry relation ideas:
He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him. ~Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stronger than before
When your life becomes a war
Set The World On Fire
Proud in all you are
Showing every scar
As your badge of honor
When you can’t take anymore
Of what they’re living for
Set The World On Fire - Andrew Biersack, Black Veil Brides, Set The World On Fire.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana
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As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
Charles Horton Cooley
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
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Patricia - you may want to reread the instructions for this proposal found on the class blog. Come and see me.
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