Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Class Quotes

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

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Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

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Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

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The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature tells every secret once.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

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When it's dark enough men see stars.

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We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

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Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

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But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

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There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

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