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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
What is a farm but a mute gospel?
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
All diseases run into one, old age.
What you are comes to you.
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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