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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. View quote
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. View quote
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. View quote
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. View quote
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Life is our dictionary. View quote
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. View quote
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. View quote
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. View quote
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. View quote
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Pictures must not be too picturesque. View quote
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Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are. View quote
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. View quote
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. View quote
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. View quote
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. View quote
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. View quote
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. View quote
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Knowledge exists to be imparted. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. View quote
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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong. View quote
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God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. View quote
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. View quote
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