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Ralph Waldo Emerson. have not chosen , but society has chosen for us . We are parlour The rugged battle of fate , where strength is born , we soldiers . shun . If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises , they lose all heart ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. have not chosen , but society has chosen for us . We are parlour The rugged battle of fate , where strength is born , we soldiers . shun . If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises , they lose all heart ...
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... society . All men plume themselves on the im- provement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances . It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other . Its progress is only apparent , like the work- ers of a ...
... society . All men plume themselves on the im- provement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances . It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other . Its progress is only apparent , like the work- ers of a ...
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... Society is a wave . The wave moves onward , but the water of which it is composed , does not . The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge . Its unity is only phenomenal . The persons who make up a nation to - day ...
... Society is a wave . The wave moves onward , but the water of which it is composed , does not . The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge . Its unity is only phenomenal . The persons who make up a nation to - day ...
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... society , the great and universal , and the petty and particular , all unjust accumulations of property and power , are avenged in the same manner . Fear is an instructor of great sagacity , and the herald of all revolutions . One thing ...
... society , the great and universal , and the petty and particular , all unjust accumulations of property and power , are avenged in the same manner . Fear is an instructor of great sagacity , and the herald of all revolutions . One thing ...
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... society are odious . Love should make joy ; but our benevolence is unhappy . Our Sunday - schools and churches , and pauper societies are yokes to the neck . We pain ourselves to please nobody . There are natural ways of arriving at the ...
... society are odious . Love should make joy ; but our benevolence is unhappy . Our Sunday - schools and churches , and pauper societies are yokes to the neck . We pain ourselves to please nobody . There are natural ways of arriving at the ...
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