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The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measu... - MORE The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

labor | common people

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Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh... - MORE Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!

D.H. Lawrence

love | universe, the | time

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Traveller take heed for journeys undertaken in the dark of the year.
Go in the bright blaze of Autumn's equinox. - MORE Traveller take heed for journeys undertaken in the dark of the year.
Go in the bright blaze of Autumn's equinox.

Margaret Abigail Walker

autumn | traveling | travelers

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