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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Book Quotes

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!

Book Quotes

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

Progress Quotes

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Being strong Quotes

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

Firsts Quotes

The greatest of all heroes is One – whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man’s whole history on earth.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Real Quotes

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men’s hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men – genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: “Do the duty which lies nearest to thee,” which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Country Quotes

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce, – he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.

History is the new poetry.

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

Pin thy faith to no man’s sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Real Quotes

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Stories Quotes

The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.

This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Goethe’s devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

Real Quotes

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

There is endless merit in a man’s knowing when to have done.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

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