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- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety…
- Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
- We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity…
- You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
- All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish…
- The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a…
- Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer…
- One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously…
- Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of…
- All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
- Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness…
- With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
- If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so…
- How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
- We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us.…
- Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but…
- I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is…
- No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet…
- You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
- My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas…
- In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,…
- Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old…
- But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
- All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
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