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So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can.
Topic: Duty
Source: Voluntaries (st. 3, l. 13)
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Echo waits with art and care
And will the faults of song repair.
Topic: Echo
Source: May-day (l. 439)
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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An empire is an immense egotism.
Topic: Egotism
Source: None
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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
Topic: Eloquence
Source: None
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Topic: Enemies
Source: Translations--From Omar Khayyam
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Topic: Enthusiasm
Source: None
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding.
Topic: Enthusiasm
Source: None
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
Topic: Excellence
Source: None
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Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Topic: Experience
Source: Oration--The American Scholar
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Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
Topic: Extremes
Source: None
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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.
Topic: Eye
Source: None
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Topic: Eye
Source: None
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The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Topic: Faith
Source: None
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Fame is proof that people are gullible.
Topic: Fame
Source: None
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Topic: Fanaticism
Source: None
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Topic: Fanatics
Source: None
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Topic: Fate
Source: None
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
Topic: Fault
Source: None
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
Topic: Fear
Source: The American Scholar
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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Topic: Finance
Source: None
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Earth laughs in flowers.
Topic: Flowers
Source: None
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Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Topic: Flowers
Source: None
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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
Topic: Force
Source: None
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it
to hold the memory of a wrong.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Greatness
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Topic: Fortune
Source: None
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We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
Topic: Freedom
Source: Boston (st. 5)
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My angel,--his name is Freedom,--
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing.
Topic: Freedom
Source: Boston Hymn
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For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Topic: Freedom
Source: None
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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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Friendship demands the ability to do without it.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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For everything you have missed you have gained something.
Topic: Gain
Source: None
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Topic: Games
Source: None
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When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.
Topic: Genius
Source: Method of Nature
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and
no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited
and gladly entertained by men around him.
Topic: Genius
Source: Race
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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Topic: Genius
Source: None
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In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Topic: Genius
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Genius
Source: None
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
Topic: Gentleman
Source: None
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