Modern proverb: Life is a journey, not a destination (1920)

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 2 01:01:50 UTC 2012


...are correctly paraphrasing Emerson.

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On Sep 1, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> find the journey's end in every step of the road
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> So, the current TV ads that unequivocally assert that the journey is
> the destination…?
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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