Quote #262

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow'.

More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
  2. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
  3. The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
  4. This world belongs to the energetic.
  5. Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
  6. Every really able man, in whatever direction he work, - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if …
  7. Science does not know its debt to imagination.
  8. Every artist was first an amateur.

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