To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.
What danger is there if you don't think of any?),
For my greatest skill has been to want but little.
A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already hal...
A township where one primitive forest waves above, while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages....
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large cro...
Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
But never mind; faint heart never won true Friend. O Friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my Friend I may be yours.
Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
En literatura, solo lo salvaje nos atrae. El aburrimiento no es sino otro nombre de la domesticación. Lo que nos deleita de *Hamlet* y *La Ilíada* es la visión del mundo incivilizada, libre y natural,...
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an es...
Every part of nature teaches that the passing away of one life is the making room for another. The oak dies down to the ground, leaving within its rind a rich virgin mould, which will impart a vigorou...
For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue.
Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.
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