Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Dinner Quotes

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

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Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.

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England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

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Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

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The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

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Live in the sunshine.

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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

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Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

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It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

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It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

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The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

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A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

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The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

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Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

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