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Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

An empire is an immense egotism.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

Fame is proof that people are gullible.