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1803–1882

FROM ALI BEN ABU TALEB

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. On two days it steads not to run from thy grave, The appointed, and the unappointed day;

On the first, neither balm nor physician can save, Nor thee, on the second, the Universe slay.

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