Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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...

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both...

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both...

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.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old...

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old...

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

A good intention clothes itself with power

A good intention clothes itself with power

An empire is an immense egotism.

An empire is an immense egotism.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the...

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the...

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

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

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being

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

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

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution...

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution...

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.