Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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...

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect,...

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect,...

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

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

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds...

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds...

When you strike at a king, you must kill him

When you strike at a king, you must kill him

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for...

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for...

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him...

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him...

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from...

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from...

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Do the thing and you will be given the power

Do the thing and you will be given the power

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

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

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.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too...

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too...

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but...

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but...