“Hast thou named all the birds without a gun;
Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forbearance http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/forebearance.htm
1840s, Poems (1847)

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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