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Fear Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages isImbecility: imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments: victims of gravity, customs and fear. This gives force to the…” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages isImbecility: imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments: victims of gravity, customs and fear. This gives force to the strong,that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.”

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