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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Beauty
- Beauty
He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Representative Men (1850)
- Character
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Journal (November 8, 1838)
- Character
- Debate
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Character
- Inspiration
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 if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Character
- Freedom
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Character
- Wisdom
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), l. 964 (Cassell’s, 1907)
- Charity
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
Euripides481–407 BCThe Bacchae, ll. 1150-1152 (tr. William Arrowsmith, 1958)
- Wisdom
Hast thou lived all these years, and learned but now
That every man more loveth his own head
Than other men’s?
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 1, spoken by AttendantIn context
- Character
Most men become successful and famous, not through ambition, but through ability and character.
WFWilliam Feather1889–1981The Business of Life (1949)
- Character
- Success
I’m not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn’t changed me.
Bobby Fischer1943–2008Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
- Character
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940Letter to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald (July 1938)
The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIn context
- Character
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy⁠—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IXIn context
- Money
- Responsibility
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. Forster1879–1970What I Believe (1938)
- Character