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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

― Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
tags: self-confidence, self-reliance, self-trust, trust
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