Knowledge exists to be imparted

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every burned book enlightens the world.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing,...

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing,...

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly...

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly...

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give...

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

All life is an experiment.

All life is an experiment.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or...

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or...

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the...

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the...

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the...

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the...

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.