"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. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation… — Unknown Author
The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who… — Terry Fox
When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to… — Philip Graham Ryken
It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from… — Camilla Gibb
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War… — Sam Kean
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out… — Edward Gorey
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. — Marge Piercy
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery… — Diane Ackerman
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty. — Megan Whalen Turner

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