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US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

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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.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

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