He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualitie… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.

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Alternative Names: R. W. Emerson • Waldo Emerson

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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

We are wiser than we know.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful t… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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