"People are very inclined to set moral standards…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People are very inclined to set moral standards for others."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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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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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
— Honore de Balzac
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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows…
— Enid Bagnold
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
— Lord Byron
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you…
— Lewis Carroll
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're…
— Benjamin Carson
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
— Fidel Castro
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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