Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Love
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.”
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), In Memory
Context: Your eyes, that looked on glory, could discover
The angry scar to which the world was blind:
And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.
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