Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always...

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always...

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not...

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not...

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...

'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or...

'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or...

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly...

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly...

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows...

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows...

We in America are fighting the money power; but if men can elsewhere get the...

We in America are fighting the money power; but if men can elsewhere get the...

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem...

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem...