Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Epigraph to History
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
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Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
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