The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Love and you shall be loved

Love and you shall be loved

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things

Patience and fortitude conquer all things

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

There is no knowledge that is not power

There is no knowledge that is not power

Language is fossil poetry

Language is fossil poetry

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

We are wiser than we know.

We are wiser than we know.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no...

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no...

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love....

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love....