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Obstacles

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.


Ralph Waldo Emerson - Zitate und Sprüche  Ralph Waldo Emerson

American writer and philosopher

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born * May 25, 1803, Boston, USA
died † April 27, 1882, Concord
function writer and philosopher


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