"The civility of the world has reached..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.
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“Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.”
“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.”
“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”
More on Civility
“If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.”
“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”
“Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.”
More on Morality
“The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.”
“Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.”
“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.”