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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
You never know how you look through other people's eyes.
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.
You can take better care of your secret than another can.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.