Popularity: 3
Vote:   | A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | A fly is as untamable as a hyena. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | A good indignation brings out all one's powers. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | A great man is always willing to be little. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | A man in debt is so far a slave. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | A man is what he thinks about all day long. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done somethingstrange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | All diseases run into one, old age. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | All life is an experiment. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | All mankind love a lover. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Always do what you are afraid to do. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | America is another name for opportunity. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | As soon as there is life there is danger. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Be an opener of doors. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Beauty without expression is boring. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Children are all foreigners. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Courage consists in the power of self-recovery. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Culture is one thing and varnish is another. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Earth laughs in flowers. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Every artist was first an amateur. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | Every burned book enlightens the world. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Every hero becomes a bore at last. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | Every man I meet is in some way my superior. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Genius always finds itself a century too early. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | God enters by a private door into every individual. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | God screens us evermore from premature ideas. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Good men must not obey the laws too well. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | He builded better than he knew; the conscious stone to beauty grew. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Hitch your wagon to a star. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | If a 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, tho it be in the woods. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | In the vaunted works of art, the master-stroke is nature's part. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | It is not length of life, but depth of life. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Make yourself necessary to somebody. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Men are what their mothers made them. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Money often costs too much. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Nature hates calculators. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | New York is a sucked orange. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Next to the originator of a sentence is the first quoter of it. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Our best thoughts come from others. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | People only see what they are prepared to see. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Pictures must not be too picturesque. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Reality is a sliding door. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Revolutions go not backward. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Science does not know its debt to imagination. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Self-truth is the essence of heroism. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Some books leave us free and some books make us free. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; it seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | 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 every thing you said to-day. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The ancestor of every action is a thought. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot. |
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