"Each of us sees in others what..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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“The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.”
“The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.”
“The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.”
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“The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.”
“Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.”
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
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“It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.”
“Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.”
“For my part, I may speak it to my shame,I have a truant been to chivalry;And so I hear he doth account me too.”