The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and- silly people.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
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Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
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[ Of Abraham Lincoln :] His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
When in doubt tell the truth .
Mark Twain
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
Mark Twain
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde