"Happy the man who never puts on a……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
— Honore de Balzac
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Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
— Les Brown
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more…
— Joseph Addison
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a…
— John Aubrey
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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