"Let the thick curtain fall; I better know than all How little I have gained, How vast the unattained."

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Abolitionists19th-century poets from the United StatesQuakersPoets from MassachusettsMassachusetts Libertyites
Original Language: English

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My Triumph, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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My Triumph, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)