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Child Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines…
- 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…
- A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
- 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…
- Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his…
- Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
- THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with…
- As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
- A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.
- To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch...
- 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…
- A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
- We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim…
- How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet…
- To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The…
- There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
- In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a…
- A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
- At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock…
- Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and…
- Fear not, then, thou child infirm; There's no god dare wrong a worm
- You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his…
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