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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. - [Vice] We are not that we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for that we are capable of being. - [Character] We hate the kindness which we understand. - [Kindness] We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods. - [Friendship] We live but a fraction of our lives. - [Living] We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. - [Traveling] We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship. - [Friendship] We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. - [Change] We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. - [Experience] Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. - [Wealth] What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues. - [Friendship] What men call social virtue, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. - [Companionship] Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. - [Reading] Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. - [Injustice] Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck; and woe be to the coward! Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play, and admits no foolish distinctions. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. - [Self-reliance] When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple. - [Dress] When I hear music I fear no danger, I am invulnerable, I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - [Music] When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria. - [Evolution] When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe. - [Fashion] While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless. - [Belief] Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so. - [Destiny] You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. - [Charity] A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result. - A Week on the Concord (Sunday) [Effort : Life] A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. - A Week on the Concord (Sunday) [Writing] At least let us have healthy books. - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [Books] Displaying page 7 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8
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