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House Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,…
- If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than…
- We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when…
- He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it…
- Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
- The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its…
- I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not…
- Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the…
- A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
- We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
- Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid,…
- They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.
- Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why…
- Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
- All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these…
- The house praises the carpenter.
- The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
- Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
- The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
- Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.
- Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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