"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~











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"Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
"The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine
"When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
"Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to ...
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
"Man is a piece of the universe made alive.


