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Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday. -Ralph Waldo Emerson:.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

There is properly no history, only biography.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.