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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do afar off.
Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do afar off.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1842 AD · industrial
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1842 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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