" Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Journals, 1843" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥21SharePinTweet0 Shares
" You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles." ~ Robert Frost ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" What is this talked-of mystery of birth But being mounted bareback on the earth?" ~ Robert Frost ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. letter to Connecticut Baptists " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor." ~ Robert Frost ♥27SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥28SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥22SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year." ~ Robert Frost ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. 1816" ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥17SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥16SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" 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?" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
