The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties even

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When you strike at a king, you must kill him

When you strike at a king, you must kill him

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the...

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the...

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world...

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world...

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

A great man is always willing to be little.

A great man is always willing to be little.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but...

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but...

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

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

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...

And there was no reason for them to be dancing the Peter Lake could see,...

And there was no reason for them to be dancing the Peter Lake could see,...