It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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