A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
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We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.
Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.
A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.
[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive represented the monarchical estate, the senate the aristocratic estate, and the house of representatives the estate of the people.
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
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