It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, sc…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.122, Penguin
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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.122, Penguin

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