In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as th

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac. In age, we put out another sort of perspiration,—gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), “Fate,” The Conduct of Life

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Look at the rainbow, and praise him who made it; it is exceedingly beautiful in its brightness. It encircles the sky with its glorious arc; the hands of the Most High have stretched it out. – Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) 43:11-12

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God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas. – Ralph Hodgson

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