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The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Children, Doctors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays - First Series”, p.274, The Floating Press

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Children, Future
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sympathy, Education, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.53, Harvard University Press

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Children, Flower
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.104, 谷月社

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Devil, Ifs

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Ignorance, Bystanders
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.206, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Baby, Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Success, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.245, Harvard University Press

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teacher, Children, Humility
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2751, Delphi Classics

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Fathers Day, Children
Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Girl, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.197, David R. Godine Publisher

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Air, Radicalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.334

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Nature, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.10, Library of America

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Children, Advantage
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Children, Attitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Power, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Men, Islands

The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Eye, World

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Grass, Duty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.94, Harvard University Press

A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Children, Philosophical
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.112, Graphic Arts Books

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Eye, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christian, Children, Flower

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Father, Soul

A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Done, Rewards

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