"Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn"
"The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive."
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.274, Harvard University Press
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a 19th-century American essayist and philosopher known for his ideas on individualism and nature, particularly in his work 'Self-Reliance.'
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