Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Education Quotes, Children Quotes

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

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We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

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Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

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The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

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No sensible person ever made an apology.

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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

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I like man, but not men.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

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Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

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Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

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