Ralph Waldo Emerson - Speak the truth, and all...

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

Born: May 25, 1803

Died: Apr 27, 1882

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Truth, You, Speak, Witness, Grass, Alive, All Things, Seem, Bear, Brute, Vouchers, Underground, Stir, Very, Move, Roots, Things

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