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“Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.”

Giving Evil Sorrow Comfort Blessing Add Endless Flight Ruins Injury Instruction

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.”

World Persons Names Pleasure Class Knowing Comfort Ruins Chiefs Insult Rejoice Consolation Respectable Resent Misanthrope Sagacity Grumbling

Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.”

Ifs Thinking Men Matter Lasts Nations Race Comfort Fairs Slavery Ice Ruins Cream Ice Cream Cheaper Completion Decoration Robbing Vanilla

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.”

Men Mind Looks Mean Done Used Pleasure Comfort Selfish Ruins Sensual Ministers Inferiors Promoting Gratification Injured Sensual Pleasure Male Dominance

Book:Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

“O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!”

Way Common Comfort Let Me Envy Pity Ruins Bliss Mask Wretched Undone

Book:The Revenge: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants

Source: The Revenge: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants