Lessons

Famous quotes containing the word lessons:

“He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate;Mdebt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)