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Boys Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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…
- 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 Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite…
- 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…
- The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its…
- 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…
- It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it…
- Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer…
- 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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