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“But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)