A day is a miniature eternity. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Fergus…

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A day is a miniature eternity. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838, p.142, Harvard University Press
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