 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
 | Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1909 - 392 pages
...dream. MANNERS BY 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...superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. The power of manners is incessant, — an element as unconcealable... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - 1909 - 392 pages
...dream. MANNERS BY 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...superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. The power of manners is incessant, — an element as unconcealable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 326 pages
...There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy way of doing things ; each, once a stroke of genius or...details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable ; men catch... | |
 | James Terry White - 1909 - 132 pages
...nothing and buys everything. . 7. Emerson says that manners are the happy way of doing things: each at once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and...routine of life is washed and its details adorned. Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortune. Your manners... | |
 | John King Clark - 1910 - 248 pages
...manners are a part of good morals. — WHATELY. 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. — EMERSON. Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good... | |
 | 1904 - 484 pages
...that remember His commandments to do them. Psalm 103. There is always a best way of doing everything. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each,...are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. . He has not the trouble of earning or owning them ; they solicit him... | |
 | Janet Erskine Stuart - 1911 - 268 pages
...glory of Christian art, the love of beauty and truth in the service of faith. CHAPTEE XII. MANNERS. " Manners are the happy ways of doing things ; each...or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. " — EMERSON. THE late Queen Victoria had a profound sense of the importance of manners and of certain... | |
 | 1913 - 646 pages
...thought entering the hands and feet, controlling the movements of the body, the speech and behavior ? There is always a best way of doing everything, if...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,... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...the body, the speech and behavior? There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to 1 5 boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things;...superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a 20 depth to the morning meadows. Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other. Consuelo,... | |
 | Mary Harmon Weeks - 1914 - 348 pages
...movements of the body, the speech and the behavior? Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love— now repeated and...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. Genius... | |
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