Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Fall Quotes

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

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When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

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In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

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Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.

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Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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