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"The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."
"One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly."
"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."
"The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."
"A man is related to all nature."
"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind."
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams."
"Men are what their mothers made them."
"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool."
"The less government we have the better."
"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."
"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
"The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. [Men] measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)"
"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."
"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."
"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better."
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."
"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."
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty."
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first."
"When it is darkest, men see the stars."
"The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point."
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back."
"It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated."
"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression."
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."
"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty."
"In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father."
"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."
"The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs."
"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."
"I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."
"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."
"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity."
"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods."
"Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success."
"So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."