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

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel...

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel...

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.

I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors...

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with...

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with...

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

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

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

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...

The greatest man in history was the poorest

The greatest man in history was the poorest

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance,...

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance,...

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of...

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of...

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too...

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too...

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long...

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long...