Attraction Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Download Open image

“There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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