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Boy Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can…
- 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
- The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector…
- We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when…
- One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
- Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would…
- Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can…
- Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries…
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- Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell
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