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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Topic: Cheating
Source: None
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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.
Topic: Cheerfulness
Source: None
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Topic: Cheerfulness
Source: None
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Topic: Children
Source: None
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Topic: Children / Youth
Source: None
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Topic: Children / Youth
Source: None
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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Topic: Choice
Source: Essay--Intellect
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Topic: Choices
Source: None
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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Topic: Circumstances
Source: None
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The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.
Topic: Civilization
Source: None
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Topic: Civilization
Source: None
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
Topic: Conceit
Source: Good-Bye (st. 4)
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Topic: Confession
Source: None
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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Topic: Conformity
Source: None
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Topic: Consistency
Source: Essays--Self-Reliance
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With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . .
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and
to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though
it contradict everything you said to-day.
Topic: Consistency
Source: Essays--Self-Reliance
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Topic: Contradiction
Source: None
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Conversation is a game of circles.
Topic: Conversation
Source: Essays--Circles
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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Topic: Conversation
Source: Society and Solitude--Clubs
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Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
Topic: Conversation
Source: None
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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions,
inspirations, flashes of genius.
Topic: Courage
Source: Society and Solitude--Courage
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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What a new face courage puts on everything!
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Topic: Courtesy
Source: None
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We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Topic: Courtesy
Source: None
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
Topic: Crime
Source: None
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Blame is safer than praise.
Topic: Criticism
Source: None
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
Topic: Culture
Source: None
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Culture, with us, ends in headache.
Topic: Culture
Source: None
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Cunning is strength withheld.
Topic: Cunning
Source: None
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Topic: Cynic
Source: None
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
Topic: Danger
Source: None
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Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
To each they offer gifts after his will,
Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
Turned and departed silent. I too late
Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
Topic: Day
Source: Days
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The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the
least pretension, and of the greatest capacity of anything that
exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent
from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do
not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
Topic: Day
Source: Works and Days
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The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
Topic: Debt
Source: None
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
Topic: Debt
Source: None
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
Topic: Debt
Source: None
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Topic: Decision
Source: None
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Go put your creed into your deed,
Not speak with double tongue.
Topic: Deeds
Source: Ode--Concord
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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
Topic: Dependence
Source: None
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Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of
night, time out of space, and space out of time.
Topic: Destiny
Source: Society and Solitude--Works and Days
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Topic: Destiny
Source: None
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Men are what their mothers made them.
Topic: Destiny
Source: None
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It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.
Topic: Disease
Source: None
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Topic: Doubt
Source: None
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Topic: Dreams
Source: None
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