You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not h…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). Emerson in His Journals, p.292, Harvard University Press
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