People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force,...

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force,...

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some...

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some...

All men in the abstract are just and good

All men in the abstract are just and good

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...

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.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to...

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to...

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance,...

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance,...

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to...

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to...

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.