If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. ✨ Ralph Waldo Em…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters, p.80, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters, p.80, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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