There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil,… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“If you were looking for whom to make a hero, look in the direction where there are farmers, for they are the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot… — Plato Copy Share Image
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children,… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than… — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up… — Li Hongzhi Copy Share Image
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later,… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to… — Frederich Leopold Von Hardenberg Copy Share Image
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
