Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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