Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-p…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1880). Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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