Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Rectitude is a perpetual victory...”

“Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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