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Experience Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Context & Meanings

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“The years teach much which the days never know.”

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Some lessons only become visible across long stretches of experience and cannot be forced into a single day of reflection.

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Essay “Experience,” Essays: Second Series.