Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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Ralph Waldo EmersonEssay 'Self-Reliance' (1841)
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement. (1803-1882)
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