Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Essays: First Series
Wisdom & life
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you…”
- Author
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Work
- Essays: First Series
- Year
- 1841
- Length
- 17 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #2944
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