"Virtue alone is sweet society,It keeps the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue alone is sweet society,It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,And opens you a welcome in them all.
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“One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."”
“Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.”
“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.”
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“The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.”
“A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.”
“All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.”