When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days a…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). Compensation and Self-Reliance, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.
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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). Compensation and Self-Reliance, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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