Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Being Strong Quotes, Luck Quotes

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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...

A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe

A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe

Difficulties exist to be surmounted

Difficulties exist to be surmounted

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it...

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it...

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes...

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes...

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

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

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

Language is fossil poetry

Language is fossil poetry

Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in...

Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in...

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.