Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Alcohol
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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
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All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.
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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.
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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
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