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"The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both."
"A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse."
"A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer."
"Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done."
"The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon."
"'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'"
"Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream."
"Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty."
"What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health."
"The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day."
"In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod."
"We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually."
"The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him."
"Genius has no taste for weaving sand."
"The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like."
"Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond."
"Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best."
"In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac."
"The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being."
"If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood."