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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
counterfeit, description, infest, infested, infesting, sentimentalist, sentimentalists
«The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
all ages, eminent, gravity, imbecility
«A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised and shocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.»