All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property: but its value is flowing like water. It requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask.
Do what you are afraid to do.
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.
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 off 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 […]
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the heart.
Vigor is contagious; and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
