Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We change, whether we like it or not

We change, whether we like it or not

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always...

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always...

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform...

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform...

Revolutions go not backward.

Revolutions go not backward.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not...

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not...

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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...

The greatest man in history was the poorest

The greatest man in history was the poorest

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass...

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass...

Men are respectable only as they respect

Men are respectable only as they respect

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will...

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will...