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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret in...
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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The imbecility of...
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Source: In Correct...
There is nothing...
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the...
The surest poison...
The surest poison is time.
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The intellectual man...
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy,...
The secret of...
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
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The less a...
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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There is really...
There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
The virtue in...
The virtue in most request is conformity.
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The mark of...
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone,...
The studious class...
The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night...
The life of...
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than...
There is something...
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
The virtues of...
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our...
The martyr cannot...
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious...
The things taught...
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an eduction, but the means of education.
The mind does...
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
Things said for...
Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders...
The whole of...
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every...
The measure of...
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years...