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

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to...

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to...

Skepticism is slow suicide

Skepticism is slow suicide

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and...

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and...

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes...

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes...

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Our best thoughts come from others.

Our best thoughts come from others.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Nature hates calculators.

Nature hates calculators.

Do what you are afraid to do

Do what you are afraid to do

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...

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Nature is endeared by the wooded path, but offended where too many tread.

Nature is endeared by the wooded path, but offended where too many tread.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for...

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for...

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot...

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...