I Have Heard With Admiring Submission The Experience Of The Lady Who Declared That The Sense Of Being Well-dressed Gives A Feeling Of Inward Tranquillity Which Religion Is Powerless To Bestow.

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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who
declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of
inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
from Frank Baer, 175 anonymous one-liners:

The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
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Tennyson is a beautiful half of a poet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.
All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests....
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Language is fossil poetry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "The Poe
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "The Poe

I Have Heard With Admiring Submission The Experience Of The Lady Who Declared That The Sense Of Being Well-dressed Gives A Feeling Of Inward Tranquillity Which Religion Is Powerless To Bestow.

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