Emerson

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“When the gods come among men, they are not known.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The love of beauty is mainly the love of measure or proportion. The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)