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What is Success?
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted November 29, 2020
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in
others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a
healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed
social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
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