I can find my biography in every fable that I read

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought...

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought...

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Children are all foreigners.

Children are all foreigners.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in...

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in...

All promise outruns performance.

All promise outruns performance.

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...

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

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 every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph...

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph...

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it

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...

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It...

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It...

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...

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...

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer,...

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer,...