“I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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