Our best thoughts come from others.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only...

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only...

The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech

The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope

The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

If everything else fails, read the instructions

If everything else fails, read the instructions

Even miracles take a little time

Even miracles take a little time

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic...

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic...

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for...

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for...

The years teach much which the days never know.

The years teach much which the days never know.

All mankind love a lover.

All mankind love a lover.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of...

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of...