Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Truth Quotes

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and...

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and...

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too...

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too...

Reality is a sliding door.

Reality is a sliding door.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be...

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be...

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common...

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common...

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter...

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter...

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that...

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that...