The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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We are constantly invited to be who we are.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in...

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in...

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them...

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man...

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man...

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a...

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's...

I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not...

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not...

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago...

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago...

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who...

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who...

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a...

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a...

We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression...

We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression...

All life is an experiment.

All life is an experiment.

No man fails who does his best.

No man fails who does his best.

Life is a question asked by God about the way He exists.

Life is a question asked by God about the way He exists.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I...

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I...

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common