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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his tuition com...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperi...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that m...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy things are sweet-tempered.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a st...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking all...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for the ages has signified cunning, intima...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, i...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men about us are dupes...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if we believed in...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson