Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be grateful for each new day.
A new day that you have never lived before.

Twenty-four new, fresh, unexplored hours
to use usefully and profitably.

We can squander, neglect or use it.
Life will be richer or poorer by the way we use today.

Finish everyday and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day.
You shall begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense.