For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and fo…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems, p.72, Bantam Classics
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