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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.
The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?
Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.
The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.
For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.
If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.
Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the wild air's salubrity.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.
We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.
Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.