Emerson friendship essay quotes
That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. 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.
Respect the child. The American Scholar Colleges… can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
Let him be to me a spirit.
Ralph waldo emerson quotes nature
The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. To a great heart he will still be a stranger in a thousand particulars, that he may come near in the holiest ground… Leave this touching and clawing. It would be lost if it knew itself before any of the best souls were yet ripe enough to know and own it. Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. One is Truth. Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? The best mix as ill as good and bad. Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.Be not too much his parent. The more experiments you make the better.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. We can seldom go erect. If you want exceptional friends, YOU must be an exceptional friend.
Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party, and not poorly limited to his own.
