Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  2. The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. - Oscar Wilde

  3. Here is your great soul–the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself. - Seneca

  4. Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. - Derrick A. Bell

  5. In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You - Vineet Raj Kapoor

More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
  1. Love, and you shall be loved.

  2. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  3. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

  4. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  5. It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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