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Children Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

105 Children quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A child playing with a drum in a sunny meadow shows how playtime is a vital part of every day. Emerson’s words remind us that nature can make us feel forever young, and that we should treat society with the same fresh curiosity as a child. He also says imagination can burst like a rainbow, turning ordinary moments into poetry.

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Children are all foreigners.

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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

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Only to youth will spring be spring.

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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

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You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

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Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

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“Then I said, “I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper…

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very…

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Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or…

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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have…

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation…

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Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous…

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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn…

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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not…

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Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd…

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The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the…

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“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune…

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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to…

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The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of…

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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to…

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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government,…

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want,…

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It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of…

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“Days" Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems…

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“Whilst I adore this ineffable life which is at my heart, it will not condescend to gossip with me, it will not…

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“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided…

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We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure…

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When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to…

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Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the…

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THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived…

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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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