The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the...

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the...

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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...

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration...

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration...

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge...

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge...

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests...

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests...

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight...

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight...

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

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

I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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...

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

There is always safety in valor.

There is always safety in valor.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.