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Woman Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
- Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
- All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their…
- Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
- A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.
- Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind…
- THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with…
- A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
- 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…
- The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am…
- The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
- A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
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