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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all.
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all.
In print by 1893 AD · industrial
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- Margaret Fuller (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1893 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Margaret Fuller. · page_375
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