Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). The Journals
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