Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast read more
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage
Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
