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Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.
I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.
Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.
The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.
Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved.
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.
Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.
Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.