A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.
- Topic: Life, Nature
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.
The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.
Looking at the stars always makes me dream.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
