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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Anxiety Quotes

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. “Tell the tailors,” said he, “to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch.” His companion’s prayer is forgotten.

Firsts Quotes

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Firsts Quotes

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Intelligence Quotes

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one’s style, both of speaking and writing.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

Government Quotes

The Library is a wilderness of books.

Book Quotes

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery, – for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Depression Quotes

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Lonely Quotes

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Lonely Quotes

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.

Fate Quotes

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

Inspirational Quotes / Graduation Quotes

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Vegan Quotes / Destiny Quotes

When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Real Quotes

There is no history of how bad became better.

History Quotes / Progress Quotes

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told.

Stories Quotes

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o’-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Reading Quotes

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

Dissent without action is consent.

I have great faith in a seed.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

I am a majority of one.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Real Quotes

The only wealth is life.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

It is as hard to see one’s self as to look backwards without turning around.

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts...

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.