Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported mirac…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.127, Harvard University Press
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.127, Harvard University Press

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