“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.”
Mark Twain
“I was born excited.”
“The experiments of the infants and the monkeys, I think, make it extremely likely that these abilities are inborn.”
Elizabeth Spelke
“Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes”
“There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.”
“Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; it seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.”
