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Fine Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
- Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,…
- Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
- The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at…
- Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of…
- The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
- Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
- The best part of health is fine disposition
- The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the…
- The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and…
- We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human…
- The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which…
- It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it…
- Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.
- I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
- 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…
- In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the…
- The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
- Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
- A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
- Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
- The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and…
- Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of…
- Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for…
- A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and…
More Fine Quotes
- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. — Jane Austen
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl -… — Jensen Ackles
- Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action… — Jensen Ackles
- A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. — Francis Bacon
- Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her… — Abigail Adams
- I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would… — Alec Baldwin
- '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason… — Christian Bale