Nature
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.3.3 · 37 votes · 63 reads
Countries
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.3.2 · 14 votes · 108 reads
Thought and Reason
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.4.6 · 36 votes · 180 reads
Science and Technology
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent en4.8 · 53 votes · 114 reads
Art and Culture
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.3.8 · 49 votes · 158 reads
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