Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Education Quotes, Wise Quotes

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?

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Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

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What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

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A man should give us a sense of mass.

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When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

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The eye is the best of artists.

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For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

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When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

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He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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