It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to...

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to...

Nature is endeared by the wooded path, but offended where too many tread.

Nature is endeared by the wooded path, but offended where too many tread.

The first wealth is health.

The first wealth is health.

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to...

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to...

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they...

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they...

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path...

None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have

None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

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...

There is no knowledge that is not power

There is no knowledge that is not power

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains...

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains...

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take...

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take...

And blessed are the horny hands of toil

And blessed are the horny hands of toil