The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
—R.Waldo Emerson
We become what we think about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever
games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but
deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go put your creed into the deed,
Nor speak with double tongue.
Nor speak with double tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 in rushing 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
Whatever
you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is
always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of
the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it
takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, -- ‘Let there be truth between us two forever more.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A
political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or
return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises
your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not
believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring
you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If
a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make
better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else,
you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the
woods.
Respect
the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves
analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his
parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those
who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good:
'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Violence is not power, but the absence of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-command is the main elegance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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