Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Light Quotes, Style Quotes

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes. They called that the "fist." St. George, they have a fist. You taste something from St. George, even across categories - the gin, the whisky - it tastes like something from St. George. It's the same as going to a great bar: You get the soul of the person making it.

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Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

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Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

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A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

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Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

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