"The state of society is one in which……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
— Margaret Atwood
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I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation…
— Unknown Author
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The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who…
— Terry Fox
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When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to…
— Philip Graham Ryken
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It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from…
— Camilla Gibb
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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War…
— Sam Kean
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Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out…
— Edward Gorey
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
— Marge Piercy
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery…
— Diane Ackerman
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Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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