Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say ...

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

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