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Tis Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
- The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there…
- 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
- 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…
- Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
- Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to…
- Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census,…
- Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty,…
- 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
- Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
- Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
- Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
- Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
- Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
- The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the…
- Tis good-will makes intelligence.
- Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or…
- We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
- 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…
More Tis Quotes
- That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. — James M. Barrie
- 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. — Lord Byron
- 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. — Lord Byron
- 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. — Lord Byron
- Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round. — Lewis Carroll
- Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes. — Miguel de Cervantes
- Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes
- Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty… — Benjamin Franklin
- Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. — Michel de Montaigne
- 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. — Ovid