The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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