Reality is a sliding door.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend...

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend...

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to...

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to...

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

All men in the abstract are just and good

All men in the abstract are just and good

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it

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...

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and...

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and...

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

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

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without...

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without...

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Men are what their mothers made them

Men are what their mothers made them

Skepticism is slow suicide

Skepticism is slow suicide

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in...

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in...

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.