"Nature has her own best mode of..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.
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“There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.”
“Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.”
“When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.”
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“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.”
“In the sun I feel as one.”
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“A man of wisdom delights in water.”
“Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”
“Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.”