How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Common sense is genius in its working clothes

Common sense is genius in its working clothes

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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,...

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors...

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors...

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of...

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of...

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air¦

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air¦

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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...

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is...

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...