Every artist was first an amateur.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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...

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with...

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with...

The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according...

The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according...

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over...

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over...

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.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.