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Ralph Waldo Emerson: You shall have...

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God: you shall not have both.

Source: Journals, 1842.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.


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