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People see only what they are prepared to see.
Source: Journals, 1863.
-- Ralph...
Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
Source: In
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of...
Skill to do comes of doing.
Source:
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882),...
Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a...
Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
Source: Compensations.
-- Ralph...
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.
Source:...
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Source: In Quotable Business,...
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this...
Reality is a sliding door.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...
Sanity is not being subdued by your means.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Source: In
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. . . . Society acquires new arts, and...
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double...
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.
The highest virtue is always against the law.
Source: From Charles Daney's...
Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you...
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.