Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.755, Harvard University Press
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.755, Harvard University Press

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