I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe tha…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.37, Penguin
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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.37, Penguin

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