Ralph Waldo Trine Quote

The tender and humane passion in the human heart is too precious a quality to allow it to be hardened or effaced by practices such as we so often indulge in.


epigraph, from title-page - Every Living Creature (1899)


The tender and humane passion in the human heart is too precious a quality to allow it to be hardened or effaced by practices such as we so often...

The tender and humane passion in the human heart is too precious a quality to allow it to be hardened or effaced by practices such as we so often...

The tender and humane passion in the human heart is too precious a quality to allow it to be hardened or effaced by practices such as we so often...

The tender and humane passion in the human heart is too precious a quality to allow it to be hardened or effaced by practices such as we so often...