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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Art is a jealous mistress. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831 | |
| Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty deed recorded, and the book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title page. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831 | |
| I hate quotations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Let us treat men and women well; Treat them as if they were real; Perhaps they are. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| When it's dark enough you can see the stars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, | |
