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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurdity, gross, public opinion, scarcely
«The basis of good manners is self-reliance.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
good manners, reliance, self reliance
«Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
inspiring, instructive, knife, puller, querulous, wasting
«Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree»
«If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.»
«Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
conservatives, luxurious, vigorous
«We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents»
«A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.»
«Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?»
«The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.»
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