Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Artist always has the masters in his eyes."
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"The Artist always has the masters in his eyes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The student is to read history actively not passively."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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"“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”"
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"Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . ."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”"
Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims
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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."
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"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way
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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
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"Be an opener of doors"
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"Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays."
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2, 1836 - 1841
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"The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Compensation: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
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"“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”"
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."
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"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well."
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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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