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Parent Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
- I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young…
- 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?
- Men are what their mothers made them.
- There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
- Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
- All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and…
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