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Quotation from Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), II. Self-Reliance (Project Gutenberg #2944)
The closing sentences of the essay, warning against hoping for happiness from good fortune.
Citation: "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), II. Self-Reliance (Project Gutenberg #2944). (id emerson-essays-q6)
Portrait: Ralph Waldo Emerson by Josiah Johnson Hawes 1857, Josiah Johnson Hawes, Public domain.
