Quote#Speech
I saw men go up and down
Quote byRalph Waldo Emerson · 1803–1882
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems (1847), Astræa.
English (original)
I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,— 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,— 'What am I? companion, say.'
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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