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A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds....

Topics: Believe, Love You, Heart, Evil Eye

quote what lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies ralph waldo emerson Quotes

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Worry

Quotation Ralph Waldo Emerson To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying Quotes

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Self Determination, Inspirational Change

Quotation Ralph Waldo Emerson The purpose of life is not to be happy It Quotes

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Topics: Inspirational, Dream, I Hate You, Inspirational Dream, Believe In Your Dreams

Quotation Ralph Waldo Emerson The only person you are destined to become is the Quotes

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Topics: Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness, Anger Inside, Words Of Anger

Quotation Ralph Waldo Emerson Sorrow looks back Worry looks around Faith looks up Quotes

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Fear, Secret Life, Worst Fear

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

source: - Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Trust, Faith, Spiritual, Spiritual Faith, Not Trusting

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

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Beauty, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Topics: Motivational, Honesty, Silly, Silliness, Being Silly

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Topics: Marriage, Men, Wife, Husband Wife, Marriage Humor

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Topics: Positive, Inspiration, Opportunity

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Live And Learn, Importunate

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Success, Grad, Inspirational Graduation

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Source Of Life, Inspirational Wisdom

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Success

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Indian Happy New Year, Daily Living

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Importunate, Had A Great Time

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Topics: Inspirational, Attitude, Hard Times, Great Minds, Stop Worrying

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

Topics: Advice, Action, Self Determination, Importunate, Trying Something New

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Topics: Inspirational, Hope, Nature, Natural Gifts, Inspirational History

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Topics: Fall, Gambling, Risk, Scepticism

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Topics: Inspirational, Action, Theory, Motivational Action, Taking Action

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Topics: Becoming, Worship, Be Careful

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

Topics: Writing, Looks, Succeed

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Topics: Inspirational, Change, Spiritual, Spiritual Vision, Valuable Things

The years teach much which the days never know.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Wisdom And Experience, Wise Wisdom

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Achievement

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Topics: Thinking, Men, Mind

We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

Topics: Grows

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Fear, Appease, Love And Fear

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Life, Making A Difference In The World, Source Of Life

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Topics: Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong, Strong Man, I Am Strong

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Topics: Inspirational, Goodbye, Morning

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Topics: Education, Suicide, Hope, Reliance, Kernel

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Topics: Inspirational, Inspiring, Thankful, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Topics: Inspirational, Strength, Success, I Am Strong, Inspirational Character

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Topics: Lying, Adversity, Power, Strength In Hard Times, Getting Through Hard Times

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Topics: Inspirational, Friendship, Adventure, New Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

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

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Source Of Life, Memorial Stone

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Positive

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Topics: Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Topics: Good Morning, Men, Monday Morning, Funny Good Morning, Morning After

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Topics: God, Faith, Religious

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Topics: Sweet, Money, Men, Success Money, Man Of Integrity

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Topics: Positive, Nature, Color, Nature Beauty, Best Nature

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Topics: Success, Patience, Be Patient, Intestinal Fortitude, Life Patience

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

Topics: Regret, Fall, Greatness, Receiver, Small Parts

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Topics: Motivational, Success, Trust, Self Trust, Inspirational Self Esteem

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

Topics: Inspirational, Morning, Each Day, Joy And Happiness

All life is an experiment.

Topics: Inspirational, Life Is, Experiments

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Topics: Education, Lying, Learning, Students And Education, What Is Education

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

Topics: Positivity, Safe, Lasts

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Topics: Perseverance, Littles, Gains, Forfeit

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Topics: Communication, Cities, Stones, Language And Communication, Language Culture

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

Topics: Past, Sacred, Facts, Profane

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Topics: Motivational, Cute, Wise, Winning Losing, Winning And Losing

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Topics: Inspirational, Success, Determination, Make The Right Choice, Make The Right Decision

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Topics: Life, Positive, Happiness, Self Determination, Fear None

Every wall is a door.

Topics: Inspirational, Attitude, Business

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Money often costs too much.

Topics: Life, Money, Contentment, Inspirational Money, Inspirational Money Making

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Topics: Life, Law Of Attraction, Carpe Diem, Just Live Your Life, Just Living Life

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Topics: Inspirational, Goal, Challenges, Aim High, Achieving Goals

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Topics: Character, Action, Kind

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Topics: Life, I Hate You, Health, Motivational Swimming, Wild Places

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Spiritual Happiness, Just Be Happy

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Topics: Confidence, Dream, Mistake, Persecuted

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Topics: Love, Art, Romance

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

Topics: Life, Real, Glasses, Real Friendship

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Topics: Inspirational, Half, Talent, Cultivation, Cumulative

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Topics: God, Bystanders, Shining, Heroic Acts

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Topics: Inspirational, Education, Peace, Fear Of The Unknown, Overcoming Fear

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Topics: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Journey To Success, Learning And Growing

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

Topics: Motivational, Truth, Honesty, Conformist, Leadership Integrity

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Atheist, Religious Humor, Funny Atheist

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Topics: Greatness, Simple, Simplicity, Simplifying Life, Simplifying Your Life

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

Topics: Pain, Spirituality, Love Pain, Withholding

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Topics: Truth, Errors, People, Agitate, Scoffers

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

Topics: Senior, Men, Thinking

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

Topics: Rivers, Looks, Hours, Rivers And Water

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Topics: Believe, Heart, Men, Conformist, Non Conformist

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

Topics: Soul, World, Redemption, Restoring, Eternal Beauty

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Topics: Friendship, Best Friend, Positive, Bff, Songs And Friendship

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Topics: Mean Girls, Women, Age, Housework, Funny Age

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Topics: Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace, Make Peace Not War, Lack Of Understanding

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Topics: Love, Beauty, Art, Makeup And Beauty, Wild Beauty

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Topics: Inspiring, Karma, Peace, Inner Peace And Happiness, Spiritual Peace

Men are what their mothers made them.

Topics: Success, Mom, Mother, Just A Mom, Inspirational Mom

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Topics: Beauty, Beautiful, Spiritual, Something Beautiful, Perfect Beauty

Every artist was first an amateur.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Art, Dilettantes

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Topics: Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful, Beautiful Nature, Soul Beauty

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Topics: Art, Hands, Imagine, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Topics: I Hate You, Character, People, Good Character, Inspirational Character

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Topics: Inspirational, Leadership, Character

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Topics: Inspirational, Clothes, Common Sense

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Topics: Silly, Science, Political, Misunderstood Genius, Statesmen

Earth laughs in flowers.

Topics: Positive, Happiness, Nature

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Topics: Beautiful, Truth, Honesty, Spiritual Truth, Lies And Liars

A great man is always willing to be little.

Topics: Confidence, Spiritual, Integrity, Humbleness, Achieve Greatness

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

Topics: Inspirational, Time, Moving Forward, Live In The Now, Past And Present

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Topics: Inspirational, Trust, Choices, Trust Your Instincts, Instinct Intuition

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Topics: Friendship, Relationship, Patience, Life Love And Friendship, Life Love Friendship

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Topics: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Natural Environment, Planting A Garden

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Topics: Children, Heart, Grandparent, Parents And Grandparents

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Topics: Age, Want, Fascination

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Topics: Science, Imagination, Doe, Physical Science, Science Research

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Topics: Art, Picturesque

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

Topics: Freedom, Men, Thinking, Servitude

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Topics: Men, Ancestor, Quotations, Genealogy, Heirlooms

America is another name for opportunity.

Topics: Opportunity, Names, America, Inspiring Patriotic, Another Opportunity

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Topics: Hate, Greatness, Power, Indignation

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Topics: Birthday, Book, Writing, American Scholar

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Topics: Men, Vaccines, Needs

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Topics: Spiritual, Soul, Gardening, Presenting

All diseases run into one, old age.

Topics: Running, Funny Relationship, Hair, Old Jokes, 30th Birthday

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Topics: Men, Law, Good Man

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Topics: Sisterhood, Civilization, Good Woman

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Topics: Nature, Men, Tongue, Articulation

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Topics: Encouragement, Niece, Integrity, Lift Me Up, Higher Ground

Our best thoughts come from others.

Topics: Humility

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Topics: Communication, Say Anything, Use

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Topics: Doing Good, Results, Wells

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Topics: Inspirational, Self Improvement, Friendship Love

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

Topics: Happiness, Being Happy, Self, Self Happiness

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Topics: Men, Appreciate, Understanding, Not Appreciated

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Topics: Positive, Powerful, Caring, Self Help

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Topics: Motivational, Family, Effort

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Topics: Life, Men, Advice

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Topics: Men, Revelations

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Topics: Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty, Aging Gracefully, Senior Citizen

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Topics: Nature, Clouds, Volatility, Steadfast, Mutability

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Topics: Inspirational, Fear, Failure, Ice Skating, Skating On Thin Ice

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Topics: Reading, Writing, Lines

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Topics: Nature, Perfection, Crystals

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Topics: Men, Organization, Wish, Brass

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Topics: Funny Relationship, Secret Love, Being Nice, Irregularity

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Topics: Numbers, Principles, Values

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

Topics: Inspirational, Hate, Men, Accompany, Extra Mile

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

Topics: Time, Cynical, Haste

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Topics: Anger, Wish, Betrayed, Blameless

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Topics: Courage, Perspective, Fearlessness

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Topics: Men, Feet, Hiking, Feet And Walking, Hiking In The Mountains

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

Topics: Faith, Believe, Men, Fruit Trees, Plant A Tree

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Topics: Thank You God, Faces, Hours

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Topics: Life, Greatness, Danger, Danger In Life

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Topics: Happy Friday, Men, Advice

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Topics: Gnarly, Feet, Hands, Hands And Feet

There is always safety in valor.

Topics: Safety, Valor

We are wiser than we know.

Topics: Educational, Frustrated, Wiser

Children are all foreigners.

Topics: Motivational, Success, Children

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Topics: Biographies, Genius, Talent, Street Life, Talent And Genius

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Topics: Inspiration, Passion, Writing

Nature hates calculators.

Topics: Nature, Hate, Calculators

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Topics: Writing, Stolen

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Topics: Truth, Lying, Character

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Topics: Inspirational, Success, Believe

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Things Have Changed

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Topics: Horse, Passion, Games, Horse Riding

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Topics: Book, Reading, Beer

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Topics: Friendship, Good Morning, Thank You, New Friendship, Life Love And Friendship

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Topics: Nature, Law, Names, Reliance

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Topics: Education, Wisdom, Book, Inspiring Book, Inspiring Reading

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Topics: Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Lost Confidence, Love Thyself

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows...

Topics: Running, Real, Men, One With Nature, The Wild Nature

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Topics: Heaven, House, World

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem, My Own Life, Inspiring Self Esteem

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Topics: Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy, Independence Of Thought, Loneliness And Solitude

Give all to love; Obey thy heart....

Topics: Love, Love You, Heart

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Topics: Inspirational, Integrity, Doe, Live For Yourself, Live For Others

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Topics: Fashion, Dog, Clothes, Dressing Well

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

Topics: Reading, Library, Paper

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Inspirational Education

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Topics: Book, Reading, Meals, Writers Reading, American Scholar

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Topics: Positivity, Inner Peace, Self Reliance

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

Topics: Children, Eye, Heart, One With Nature, Inner Child

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Topics: Motivational, Beauty, Time, Nature Beauty, Scenic

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Topics: Greatness, Men, Long

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

Topics: Dream, Night, Men, Stammering, Stuttering

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Topics: Motivational, Learning, Men, Never Stop Learning, Computer Language

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

Topics: Smart, Addiction, Vision

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

Topics: Nature, Book, Taken

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Topics: Inspirational, Honesty, Truth, Truth And Honesty

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Topics: Nature, Health, Garden, Spades, Exhilaration

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

Topics: Running, Eye, Writing

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

Topics: Wine, Weather, Giving, Great Wine, Funny Wine

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

Topics: Life, Beauty, Eye, Eyes And Beauty, Eyes Looking

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Topics: Education, Book, Reading, Book Reading, Libraries And Reading

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Mouse Traps, Beaten Path

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Topics: Motivational, Baby, Children

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Topics: Men, Library, Enthusiasm, Harem

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Topics: Life, Positive, Wisdom, Life Journey, Wise Wisdom

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Topics: Inspirational, Life Lesson, Order

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

Topics: Peace, Giving, Victory, Both Sides

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Topics: Friendship, Family, Trust, Spiritual Inspiration, Inspiring Friends

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

Topics: Nature, Spirit, Made

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Topics: Suicide, Courage, Ignorance

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Topics: Inspirational, Positive Thinking, New Day, Importunate, Indomitable Spirit

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