The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a...

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a...

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain,...

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain,...

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison...

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is...

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and...

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and...

Nature hates calculators.

Nature hates calculators.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

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,...

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The...

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The...

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always...

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always...

As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck,...

As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck,...

Thought is action in rehearsal

Thought is action in rehearsal

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at...

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at...

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...

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Power and speed be hands and feet.