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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.76, Harvard University Press
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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.76, Harvard University Press

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