Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote link. Other quotes about: day life mind: "A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature: "Adopt the pace of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience nature: "Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing little mind soul: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend think person sin: "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend think: "A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend nature: "A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power good intention clothes: "A good intention clothes itself with power."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature person born: "All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power first man value: "All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "All life is an experiment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mankind love: "All mankind love a lover."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason first: "All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
Quote link.: "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day man life house rest: "A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man nature: "A man is related to all nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work man mind: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power man wife: "A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time nature pain child: "A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think man: "A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "As soon as there is life there is danger."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old beauty grow: "As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend: "A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."
Quote link. Other quotes about: discover: "A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time good value: "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
Quote link.: "Be and not seem."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die right first sun: "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."
Quote link.: "Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul: "Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend: "Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god think: "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money time hard: "Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce"
Quote link. Other quotes about: live think soul: "Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success: "Character is what can do without success."
Quote link.: "Children are all foreigners."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art day live man mankind: "Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little never life: "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
Quote link.: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Quote link.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad beauty good: "Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day man sun change: "Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art first: "Every artist was first an amateur."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth world book house: "Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
Quote link.: "Every hero becomes a bore at last."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man person sin alone: "Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Every man I meet is in some way my superior."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god man: "Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first man mind: "Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good evil: "Every sweet has its sour every evil its good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people: "Fame is proof that people are gullible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god sun sin: "Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old day forget: "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day sleep: "Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something: "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else and for everything you gain, you lose something."
Quote link. Other quotes about: purpose love: "Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see -- not to eat, not for love, but only gliding."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Give all to love obey thy heart."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend house: "Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world men rule: "Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never life value: "Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth god: "Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends: "He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time wise love mind look: "He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life fear: "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
Quote link.: "Hitch your wagon to a star."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books man book courage wisdom alone: "I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old friend friends: "I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends: "I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work men dreams good: "Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost: "If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find man house good hard: "If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old time good rich born: "If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one..."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find right truth belief soul: "If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience power religion: "I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: service: "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class man good: "I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate: "Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america man father: "In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never man: "Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope never life: "Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."
Quote link.: "In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man: "Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."
Quote link. Other quotes about: book: "In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find human people religion: "In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity."
Quote link.: "In the woods is perpetual youth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends fact: "I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world wish: "Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in."
Quote link. Other quotes about: family: "It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death pain fear: "It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old friend friends: "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life sin: "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good hard: "It is very hard to be simple enough to be good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: perfect: "It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think never look: "I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry."
Quote link.: "Knowledge exists to be imparted."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise: "Life is a festival only to the wise."
Quote link.: "Life is a progress, and not a station."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live success: "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Quote link.: "Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first pain light: "Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sun: "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air"
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Love and you shall be loved."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "Love is the essence of God."
Quote link.: "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life hard: "Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any."
Quote link.: "Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mother: "Men are what their mothers made them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."
Quote link.: "Money often costs too much."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world good religion country: "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man making: "Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old book: "Never read a book that is not a year old."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first good: "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: past fact: "No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back."
Quote link. Other quotes about: alone: "None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: peace: "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
Quote link.: "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Quote link. Other quotes about: integrity mind: "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success: "Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man beauty wisdom: "One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day life: "One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book: "Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand: "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
Quote link.: "People only see what they are prepared to see."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend time friends: "Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: luck believe men: "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Quote link.: "Skill to do comes of doing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: run: "Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."
Quote link.: "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hours time man: "So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think words hard: "Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world rule: "Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance power never beauty: "Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you."
Quote link.: "The ancestor of every action is a thought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men understand heaven: "The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person: "The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life belief: "The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."
Quote link. Other quotes about: education: "The education of the will is the object of our existence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die human: "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship believe friend glory discover friends: "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."
Quote link. Other quotes about: government: "The less government we have the better."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk: "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth: "The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even."
Quote link.: "The only gift is a portion of thyself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend: "The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend: "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend house friends: "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think: "There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise wish: "There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason men love look: "The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain wish: "There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth world snow: "There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men man: "The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: science god religion: "The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."
Quote link.: "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world silence: "The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause."
Quote link.: "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: education: "The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power war country: "The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope truth time: "The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find man wise: "The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god man wise fear: "The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise wisdom: "The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "The world belongs to the energetic."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech human world nature mind: "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe day first life fear: "They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day never teach: "The years teach much which the days never knew."
Quote link. Other quotes about: worse: "They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time good: "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live world light: "This world we live in is but thickened light."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wish: "Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."
Quote link.: "Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: seed: "Thought is the seed of action."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find world: "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
Quote link. Other quotes about: book good: "Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time."
Quote link.: "To be great is to be misunderstood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe men: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness: "To fill the hour-that is happiness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art teach: "To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find friend live world little people life respect beauty children success honest friends child: "To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world nature light mind: "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend day men saint: "To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies: "Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies."
Quote link.: "Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs."
Quote link. Other quotes about: saint: "Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something never grow: "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
Quote link.: "We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man beauty belief born: "We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words: "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."
Quote link.: "We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."
Quote link.: "We do what we must, and call it by the best names."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find happiness beauty children child: "We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
Quote link.: "We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right believe need courage: "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain children dead child: "What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes"
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty find think life hard rule: "What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never discover: "What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think world hard: "What is the hardest thing in the world To think."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us."
Quote link.: "What we call results are beginnings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person: "What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour."
Quote link.: "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
Quote link.: "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "When it is darkest, men see the stars."
Quote link.: "When you strike at a king, you must kill him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human god man law: "Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
Quote link.: "Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit."
Quote link.: "Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

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