We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.

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

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

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

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

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

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old...

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well...

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well...

Happy is the house that shelters a friend

Happy is the house that shelters a friend

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted

Difficulties exist to be surmounted

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies

Obedience alone gives the right to command

Obedience alone gives the right to command

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population....

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population....

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...

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.