A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter-ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
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