"Society never advances. It recedes as fast..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
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“I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints”
“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?”
“The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.”
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