When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be shor…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). Emerson in His Journals, p.354, Harvard University Press
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When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). Emerson in His Journals, p.354, Harvard University Press

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