A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common...

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common...

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The...

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and...

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and...

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts

The greatest man in history was the poorest

The greatest man in history was the poorest

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and...

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and...

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

You cannot see the mountain near

You cannot see the mountain near

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at...

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at...

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be...

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be...