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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Hypocrisy

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
People, Hypocrisy, Moral

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

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hypocrisy, Politics, Satisfaction
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.123

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Men, Hypocrisy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.650, Harvard University Press

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Hypocrisy, Curious

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