Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Gossip

• Every man alone is sincere.
  At the entrance of a second person,
  hypocrisy begins.
  We parry and fend the approach
  of our fellow-man by compliments,
  by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
  We cover up our thought from him
  under a hundred folds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Gossip, Hypocrisy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

• We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Gossip, Disgusted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.403

• Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Angel, Nurse

• A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Brain, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.124, Harvard University Press

• Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.99, Harvard University Press

• Every thought is public,
  Every nook is wide;
  Thy gossips spread each whisper,
  And the gods from side to side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Sides, Spread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.291

• I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Leave Me Alone, Luck

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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