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361 Five Glimpses of Gratitude (Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sharon Olds, Henry David Thoreau, WS Merwin)

The History of Literature

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I Am Grateful for What I Am and Have.

"My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite, only a sense of existence," he writes. "I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years and exhaust it." He asks: 'What are all these years made for? And now another winter comes'

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