" Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit." ~ Robert Frost ♥17SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The majority, oppressing an inidual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance." ~ Robert Frost ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. Declaration of Independence" ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥26SharePinTweet0 SharesIndependence Day
" Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." ~ Robert Frost ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥31SharePinTweet2 SharesHappinessLife Quotes
" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. Birches " ~ Robert Frost ♥22SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
" I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake. " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥29SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥21SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life: 1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which never have happened. 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. (letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825) " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥28SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged. " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥30SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." ~ Robert Frost ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
