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" Care not to strip the dead Of his sad ornament, His myrrh, and wine, and rings, His sheet of lead, And trophies buried : Go, get them where he earned them when alive ; As resolutely dig or dive. Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark,... "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." 57. Cf. Emerson's lines To JW : — " Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark." Why would Emerson be more inclined to write on a bee than on a nightingale or a skylark ? How is imagination...
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The Methodist Magazine

1880 - 820 pages
...their straight march toward untrodden fields. They seemed to think with the Concord minstrel : '.' Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand : 'Twill soon be dark ; Up ! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark ! " The subject of Christian...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...unwind the shroud Which charitable Time And Nature have allowed To wrap the errors of a sage sublime. Set not thy foot on graves : Care not to strip the...In critic peep or cynic bark. Quarrel or reprimand : 'Twill soon be dark ; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark ! ...J FATE. THAT you are fair...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...unwind the shroud Which charitable time And nature have allowed To wrap the errors of a sage sublime. Set not thy foot on graves; Care not to strip the...resolutely dig or dive. Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up ! mind thine own aim,...
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The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine

Bible Christians - 1885 - 746 pages
...thought as we were then in the full swing of revival services and nightly witnessing conversions, that " Life is too short to waste In critic peep, or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand," and urged our friend to " preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, exhort with all longsuffering...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 266 pages
...unwind the shroud Which charitable Time And Nature have allowed To wrap the errors of a sage sublime. Set not thy foot on graves : Care not to strip the...his sad ornament, His myrrh, and wine, and rings, 44 TO J. w. His sheet of lead, And trophies buried : Go, get them where he earned them when alive ;...
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Moral and Religious Quotations from the Poets: Topically Arranged ...

1861 - 356 pages
...thy days, and if they fly too fast For thy dull thoughts to count, count every day thy last. QUARLES. Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand— 'Twill soon be dark ; Up! mind thino own aim, and God speed the mark. EMERSON. Live to some purpose;...
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Radical: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Religion, Volume 5

1869 - 580 pages
...sacred privacy of the soul. But the day ot such interference draws to its close : meanwhile ^-_ , " Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quam'l or reprimand . 'Twill soon be dark. i mil nuuii uc Uiiiit. Up ! mind thine own aim. and fiod...
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The earthward pilgrimage

Moncure Daniel Conway - 1870 - 436 pages
...places of the earth, who through death obtained this resurrection, and eternal holy life. JAMES NAYLOB. Set not thy foot on graves ; Care not to strip the...earned them when alive, — As resolutely dig or dive. EMERSON. BUNHILL FIELDS. NDER the gray October sky I started forth to witness the formal re-opening...
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American Religion

John Weiss - 1871 - 348 pages
...not surrender to him their trophies : at the most, they can only count upon depriving him of sleep. " Care not to strip the dead Of his sad ornament, —...earned them when alive ; As resolutely dig or dive." . This is the lesson of every Bible. If any other is forced upon it, the individual has to be defrauded...
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