" Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" These rabble at Washington ... see, against the unanimous expression of the people, how much a little well-directed effrontery can achieve, how much crime the people will bear, and they proceed from step to step... (Journal, June 1846)" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~ Robert Frost ♥26SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Journals, 1843" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles." ~ Robert Frost ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" What is this talked-of mystery of birth But being mounted bareback on the earth?" ~ Robert Frost ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥16SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. letter to Connecticut Baptists " ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor." ~ Robert Frost ♥26SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥27SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year." ~ Robert Frost ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. 1816" ~ Thomas Jefferson ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥16SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
