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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays Quotes: A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
         

A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.


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