The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
To fill the hour──that is happiness.
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent
There is always safety in valor.
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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.
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
Language is fossil Poetry.
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Books are for nothing but to inspire
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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