Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we…

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to...

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to...

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for...

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for...

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what...

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what...

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

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

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

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

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.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time...

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time...

Our best thoughts come from others.

Our best thoughts come from others.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of...

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests...

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests...

Difficulties exist to be surmounted

Difficulties exist to be surmounted

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is...

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is...

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't...

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't...

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom