"The gentleman is a man of truth." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The gentleman is a man of truth."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a…
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and…
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In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my…
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a…
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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