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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, 'All summer in the field, and all winte...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellan...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorage is quicksand...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely, to put every man on his merits, and to give him so much power as he naturally exer...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets, the timid woman is not scared by fagots; the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ignominious. T...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they re...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the yo...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken, a pointer trained, or has visited a menagerie or the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, wi...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The law of nature is, do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his pea...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emble...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night a...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with whic...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We i...
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches a...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, is to make him...
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The bard must be with good intent no more his, but hers; must throw away his pen and paint, kneel with worshippers.
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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is,...
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The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with grim sa...
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The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; ...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, 'the sweet seriousness of sixteen,' the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, t...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,—because bo...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, not by his friends or his towns-people or his contemporaries, but by all men, and ...
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