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Stranger Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.
- There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give…
- Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries…
- I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the…
- And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never…
- How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet…
- Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the…
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- If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon
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- Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real… — Martha Beck
- A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult… — John Berger
- If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister.… — Cate Blanchett
- It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on… — Vanna Bonta
- It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers.… — Carol Burnett
- Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -… — Barbara Bush
- I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the… — Sophia Bush
- What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. — Lord Byron