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Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson,


"The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature,
to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand."


By:

Ralph Waldo Emerson (more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson or books by/about Ralph Waldo Emerson)


(1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, and poet

Source:

Essays, 1841

Categories:

Altruist, Persecution, Utopia

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