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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.
Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.
Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.