Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its…

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood...

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood...

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight...

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight...

Men are what their mothers made them.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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...

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor...

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or...

'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or...

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes...

As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes...

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.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to...

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of...

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as...

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as...