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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:6265
AUTHOR:Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
QUOTATION:Though love repine, and reason chafe,
  There came a voice without reply,—
“’T is man’s perdition to be safe
  When for the truth he ought to die.”
ATTRIBUTION:Sacrifice.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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