"There is a certain wisdom of humanity..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.
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“Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.”
“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
“In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.”
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“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
“Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.”
“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.”
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“Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.”
“For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.”
“The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.”