Ralph Waldo Emerson On Debt

“A man in debt is so far a slave.”

”Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.”

”Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?   Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!”

 

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