 There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine...  Works - Page 391by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...essay mentioned in the introduction to this volume. Here are a few good sayings about Behavior: — "There is always a best way of doing everything, if...of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage." Thus it is that Mr. Emerson speaks of Manners in his essay under the above title: — "The basis of... | |
 | 1892 - 568 pages
...least for himself, the question of finding time for teaching morals. — Ohio Educational Monthly. THERE is always a best way of doing everything, if...egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 pages
...There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy wave of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of...superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable; men catch them from each other. Consuelo,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...ungraceful by their good qualities. — Rochefoucauld. Manners are the happy ways of doing things ; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened...superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. — Emenon. They asked Lncman, the fabulist, From whom did you learn... | |
 | San Francisco (Calif.). Superintendent of Public Schools - 1895 - 156 pages
...in our employ. Yours truly, CULTIVATED MANNERS. Manners are the happy way of doing things ; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened...are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable ; men catch them from each other. Consuelo,... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 pages
...good sense is to the mind. — LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened...superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. —EMERSON. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 pages
...Aristides, would be that of well-bred. . LORD CHESTERFIELD. BEHAVIOR. (From "The Conduct of Life.") 'HERE is always a best way of doing everything, if it be...are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable; men catch them from each other. Consuelo,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 542 pages
...thought entering the hands and feet, controlling the movements of the body, the speech and behaviour? There is always a best way of doing everything, if...doing things ; each once a stroke of genius or of Jove, — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine... | |
 | Jean Sherwood Rankin - 1906 - 360 pages
...famous essay written by one of America's greatest and wisest scholars : Then; is always a best wav of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners...happy ways of doing things ; each, once a stroke of genins or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. There are certain manners which are learned... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 pages
...children free, BEHAVIOR RALPH WALDO EMERSON THERE is always a best way of doing everything, if it be but to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing...are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. The power of manners is incessant — an element as unconcealable as... | |
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