1442 Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1. 'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

- 2. 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

- 3. 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be conf ...

- 4. 'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

- 5. 'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense s ...

- 6. A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or picture ...

- 7. A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet ...

- 8. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it stil ...

- 9. A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

- 10. A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

- 11. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

- 12. A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

- 13. A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

- 14. A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

- 15. A day is a miniature eternity.

- 16. A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man ...

- 17. A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

- 18. A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

- 19. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers ...

- 20. A friend is a person before whom I may think aloud

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