Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Heroism Quotes

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with...

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with...

The ancestor of every action is a thought

The ancestor of every action is a thought

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Speak less. Say more. whaywardj

Speak less. Say more. whaywardj

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and...

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and...

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.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

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.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge...

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge...

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom...

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom...

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the...

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the...

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of...

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of...

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know

There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in...

There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in...

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.