"A third felicity of age is that..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.
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“Traveling is a fool's paradise.”
“Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?”
“There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.”
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“It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.”
“If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.”
“The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.”