Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher gr…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.1554, Delphi Classics
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