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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.
The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.