The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being

God enters by a private door into every individual.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe

A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and...

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and...

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes...

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes...

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over...

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over...

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel...

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel...

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is...

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is...

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy,...

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy,...

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.

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...

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes...

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes...