Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own…

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thought is action in rehearsal

Thought is action in rehearsal

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope...

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope...

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it...

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it...

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time...

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time...

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in...

Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in...

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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.

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when...

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when...

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but...

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but...

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population....

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population....

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession...

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession...

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and...

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and...

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.