Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Education Quotes

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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The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

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Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

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Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

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They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

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A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

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The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

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Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

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Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

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