" From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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 labour, 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 ♥21SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
" A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥12SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥24SharePinTweet2 SharesLife QuotesSuccess
" A friend is one before whom I may think aloud." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥13SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" 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." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonnair and social; reform is inidual and imperious. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥11SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥5SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥20SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥24SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
" We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The two parties which ide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
