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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871, p.340, University of Georgia Press
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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