Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative proposition…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.157, Harvard University Press
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