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Essays — First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson

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A reason to turn the page

When night sings with moonlight and stars spell your secret, how can daylight demand anything?

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“All other pleasures are not worth its pains:”

and when the day was not long enough, but the night too must be consumed in keen recollections; when the head boiled all night on the pillow with the generous deed it resolved on; when the moonlight was a pleasing fever and the stars were letters and the flowers ciphers and the air was coined into song; when all business seemed an impertinence, and all the men and women running to and fro in the streets, mere pictures.