Let Not A Man Guard His Dignity, But Let His Dignity Guard Him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As We Grow Old?The Beauty Steals Inward.
The Key To Every Man Is His Thought…. He Can Only Be Reformed By Showing Him A New Idea Which Commands His Own.
Don’t Be Too Timid And Squeamish About Your Actions. All Life Is An Experiment. The More Experiments You Make The Better.
The End Of The Human Race Will Be That It Will Eventually Die Of Civilization.
Work And Acquire, And Thou Hast Chained The Wheel Of Chance.
The Ornament Of A House Is The Friends Who Frequent It.
Beware When The Great God Lets Loose A Thinker On This Planet.
That Which We Persist In Doing Becomes Easier, Not That The Task Itself Has Become Easier, But That Our Ability To Perform It Has Improved.
No Great Man Ever Complains Of Want Of Opportunity.
People Seem Not To See That Their Opinion Of The World Is Also A Confession Of Their Character.
If I Have Lost Confidence In Myself, I Have The Universe Against Me.
Wit Makes Its Own Welcome, And Levels All Distinctions. No Dignity, No Learning, No Force Of Character, Can Make Any Stand Against Good Wit.
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.
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.
Next To The Originator Of A Good Sentence Is The First Quoter Of It.
Men Are Conservatives When They Are Least Vigorous, Or When They Are Most Luxurious. They Are Conservatives After Dinner.
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.
Trust Men And They Will Be True To You; Treat Them Greatly, And They Will Show Themselves Great.
All Life Is An Experiment. The More Experiments You Make, The Better
Nothing Astonishes Men So Much As Common Sense And Plain Dealing.
Nature Magically Suits A Man To His Fortunes, By Making Them The Fruit Of His Character.
Children Are All Foreigners.
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.
These Times Of Ours Are Series And Full Of Calamity, But All Times Are Essentially Alike. As Soon As There Is Life There Is Danger.
Every Artist Was First An Amateur.
Live In The Sunshine, Swim The Sea, Drink The Wild Air.
Every Hero Becomes A Bore At Last.
Every Sweet Has Its Sour; Every Evil Its Good.
This Time, Like All Times, Is A Very Good One, If We But Know What To Do With It.
Whatever Limits Us, We Call Fate.
The Louder He Talked Of His Honor, The Faster We Counted Our Spoons.
Shallow Men Believe In Luck. Strong Men Believe In Cause And Effect.
A Hero Is No Braver Than An Ordinary Man, But He Is Braver Five Minutes Longer.
There Are Many Things Of Which A Wise Man Might Wish To Be Ignorant.
Truth Is Beautiful, Without Doubt; But So Are Lies.
Immortality. I Notice That As Soon As Writers Broach This Question They Begin To Quote. I Hate Quotation. Tell Me What You Know.
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.
The Two Parties Which Divide The State, The Party Of Conservatism And That Of Innovation, Are Very Old, And Have Disputed The Possession Of The World Ever Since It Was Made.
In Every Work Of Genius We Recognize Our Own Rejected Thoughts; They Come Back To Us With A Certain Alienated Majesty.
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