For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common...

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common...

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires...

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires...

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of...

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of...

A man in debt is so far a slave.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

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

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

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not...

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not...

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion...

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion...

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They...

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They...

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are...

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are...

Action without thought is like shooting without aim.

Action without thought is like shooting without aim.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.