We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both...

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both...

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and...

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and...

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

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...

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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

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

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to...

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to...

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...