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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
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Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
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A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.
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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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