The effort to make things equal is a problem too great for … - Joel Benton

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The effort to make things equal is a problem too great for any but angels and seraphs to deal with. No merely human device can touch it without breaking or deranging the mainspring of civilization.

Joel Benton

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(May 29, 1832 – September 15, 1911) was an American writer, poet and lecturer.

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Nothing was ever truer...than the statement, "The poor you have always with you."

The man who burned up his barn filled with grain to destroy a hornets' nest is not alone in the world. He now has a cult and a body of disciples.

Don't we all, of long ago,
By the ruddy fireplace glow,
In the kitchen and the hall,
Those queer, cooflike pranks recall? Eery shadows were they then—
But to-night they come again;
Were we once more but sixteen,
Precious would be Halloween.

The effort to make things equal is a problem too great for any but angels and seraphs to deal with. No merely human device can touch it without break… - Joel Benton

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