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Class Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.…
- You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know…
- There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
- Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the…
- But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets…
- All great men come out of the middle classes.
- There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if…
- I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to…
- You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. — Robert Baden-Powell