Quote #24504
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must...
Quote #24014
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce...
Quote #22733
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously...
Quote #4279
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Quote #14908
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
Quote #18792
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God,...
Quote #31124
Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
Quote #2681
Genius is of no country.
Quote #5349
They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every...