| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 186 |
| AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) |
| QUOTATION: | Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “Social Aims,” Letters and Social Aims (vol. 8 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), p. 96 (1917).
Based on a lecture delivered in Boston, Massachusetts, December 4, 1864. |
| SUBJECTS: | Character |
| WORKS: | Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection | | |
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