Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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