Life is a festival only to the wise.
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The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books and I think no chair is so much needed.
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If we live truly, we shall see truly.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in colleges and school are not an education but a means to an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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