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Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Topic: Action
Source: None
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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Topic: Action
Source: None
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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
Topic: Admiration
Source: None
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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even.
Topic: Affection
Source: None
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Topic: Affirmation
Source: None
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All diseases run into one, old age.
Topic: Age
Source: None
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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility
rests on possession and use of land.
Topic: Agriculture
Source: Society and Solitude--Farming
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
Topic: Amusement
Source: None
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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Ants never sleep.
Topic: Ants
Source: Nature (ch. IV)
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.
Topic: Applause
Source: in an address
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Topic: Applause
Source: None
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The April winds are magical,
And thrill our tuneful frames;
The garden-walks are passional
To bachelors and dames.
Topic: April
Source: April
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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the
insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite
blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate
finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of
vegetable beauty.
Topic: Architecture
Source: Essays--Of History
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Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As best gem upon her zone.
Topic: Architecture
Source: The Problem
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity;
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew;
The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Topic: Architecture
Source: The Problem
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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any
end, is art.
Topic: Art
Source: Society and Solitude--Art
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Topic: Art and Artists
Source: None
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Chide me not, laborious band!
For the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand
Goes home loaded with a thought.
Topic: Asters
Source: The Apology
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Topic: Attitude
Source: None
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The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Topic: Authority
Source: None
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Topic: Balance
Source: None
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Burly, dozing humblebee,
Where thou art is clime for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off heats through seas to seek.
I will follow thee alone,
Thou animated torrid-zone!
Topic: Bees
Source: The Humble-Bee
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Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
. . . .
Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
Topic: Bees
Source: The Humble-Bee
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.
Topic: Beliefs
Source: None
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Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
Topic: Bigotry
Source: None
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Blame is safer than praise.
Topic: Blame
Source: None
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The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
Topic: Body
Source: None
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The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Topic: Books
Source: None
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Topic: Books
Source: None
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Topic: Borrowing
Source: None
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The sea returning day by day
Restores the world-wide mart.
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart
Till these echoes be choked with snows
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
Topic: Boston
Source: Boston (st. 20)
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
Topic: Boys
Source: None
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Topic: Bragging
Source: None
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Topic: Bragging
Source: None
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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
Topic: Brevity
Source: None
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering
trade.
Topic: Business
Source: Work and Days
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Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
Topic: Calamity
Source: None
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
Topic: Calamity
Source: None
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These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
Topic: Calamity
Source: None
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Topic: Candor
Source: None
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
Topic: Censorship
Source: None
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Topic: Character
Source: None
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Topic: Character
Source: None
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What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Topic: Character
Source: None
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Topic: Charity
Source: None
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