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1803–1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,— ‘'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.’

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SACRIFICE · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Poetry Cove