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
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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