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- Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.…
- Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
- Society is a hospital of incurables.
- Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
- Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
- A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast.…
- There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
- There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
- The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.
- No man can have society upon his own terms.
- The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;…
- There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads…
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
- Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the…
- Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to…
- I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not…
- Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should…
- Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
- The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious.…
- Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its…
- Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
- The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the…
- And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for…
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