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 lived.
This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Document Last Updated March 14, 1997
© 1997 by:
Julie Szmyd
Computer Science
Case Western Reserve University
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