More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they liv…
  2. Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
  3. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
  4. If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the…
  5. Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
  6. There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of …
  7. I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
  8. Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.

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