Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, School Quotes

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

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Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

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I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

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It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

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The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

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Literature is eavesdropping.

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Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

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Love is the essence of God.

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A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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