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The greatest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance. The writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, was speaking about people’s capacity to keep going in spite of all the obstacles in life.
When you give up hope completely, you realize that sometimes the only way you can move forward is to stop and start over again. Emerson understood that while it may be hard to do, a person has to continue on if they want to reach their goals.
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