Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Pain Quotes, School Quotes

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

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Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

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We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

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No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

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Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

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The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

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Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

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A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

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