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 of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
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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 accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college for boys, not for men and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn from him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The studious class are their own victims they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.
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