All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). Emerson in His Journals, p.123, Harvard University Press
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