“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

12 April 1834 http://books.google.com/books?id=MpNaAAAAMAAJ&q="We+are+always+getting+ready+to+live+but+never+living"&pg=PA276#v=onepage
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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