Hitch your wagon to a star.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man is what he thinks about all day long.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy,...

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy,...

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

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

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 true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife,...

The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife,...

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over...

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over...

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with...

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with...

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never...

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never...

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...

Skill to do comes of doing

Skill to do comes of doing

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.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but...

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but...

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration...

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration...

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have...

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have...

Knowledge exists to be imparted

Knowledge exists to be imparted

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect...

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect...

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.