Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Modern

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Fragment from a journal entry, sometimes attributed to 'Success' or 'The Conduct of Life'.

Date / Period

1850s (approx.)

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Humorous

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https://www.emersoncentral.com/texts/journals/

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