Quotes of: Selfreliant Keyword

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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The student is to read history actively not passively.

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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men--that is genius.

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Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be gr...

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing...

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We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourse...

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The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they ...

The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from wi...

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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to ...

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On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,--"But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's chil...

Self-Reliance and Other Essays