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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
counterfeit, description, infest, infested, infesting, sentimentalist, sentimentalists
«Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.»
«The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
all ages, eminent, gravity, imbecility
«A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.»
«A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised and shocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.»
«A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.»
«A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.»
«All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?»
«As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.»
«Books are for nothing but to inspire.»
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