{"author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson","total_quotes":922,"quotes":[{"text":"What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["children","infants"],"id":317,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education  but the means of education.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["education"],"id":1093,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["nature"],"id":1353,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining  but they make them artificial.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["city","country"],"id":1919,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["inspirational"],"id":2304,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Do the thing you fear  and the death of fear is certain.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["success","happiness"],"id":3351,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["friends","friendship"],"id":3611,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["beauty","travel"],"id":3868,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"I pay the School Master  but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["school"],"id":4145,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["dreams"],"id":4239,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":922,"pages":93,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}