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The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest capacity _of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest capacity _of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 161 · quotation 17 · Emerson · Works and Days.
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