“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
“Making mental sermons, can spoil delicious moments.”
A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)
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Investigations have failed to confirm this in Emerson's writings (John H. Lienhard. "A better moustrap" http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1163.htm, Engines of our Ingenuity). Also reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 25. Note that Emerson did say, as noted above, "I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods". <br class="br">Misattributed
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
