The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
Ideals and Idealism
Quotations by James Russell Lowell
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. James Russell Lowell
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