Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Humility is the secret of the wise.
What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.
When it's dark enough men see stars.
In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
Our expenses are all for conformity.
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
The universe is the externalization of the soul.
We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.
What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
The soul circumscribes all things.
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
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