 Character is always known. Thefts never enrich ; alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie, — for example, the taint of vanity, any attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance, — will instantly...  Transcendentalism: And Other Addresses - Page 84by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1886 - 103 pagesFull view - About this book
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...attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance — will instantly vitiate the effect. But speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are...there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. For all things proceed out of the same spirit, which is differently named love, justice, temperance,... | |
 | Bruce Wilshire - 1999 - 308 pages
...example, the taint of vanity, any attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance— will instantly vitiate the effect. But speak the truth,...underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.12 We remind ourselves of James's insight: the world experienced primally and immediately undercuts... | |
 | James E. Birren, Kathryn N. Cochran - 2001 - 210 pages
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 | Richard Stengel - 2002 - 326 pages
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 | Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 465 pages
...ill speak out of stone walls. The least mixture of a lie — for example, the taint of vanity, any attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearancewill...all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance." Character is the poor man's capital. " When I asked you for anecdotes upon the age of this king," said... | |
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 | 1874 - 932 pages
...dignity, and even its spiritual elevation. The same is the case with the following from the same writer: " Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are...under-ground there do seem to stir and move to bear yon witness." Here again we have a depth added by the word do where seem alone would have enfeebled... | |
 | 219 pages
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