Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom…

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

A great man is always willing to be little.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Obedience alone gives the right to command

Obedience alone gives the right to command

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes...

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes...

Happy is the house that shelters a friend

Happy is the house that shelters a friend

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves...

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves...

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

The ancestor of every action is a thought

The ancestor of every action is a thought

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion...

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion...

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the...

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the...

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of...

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of...

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole...

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole...