Ralph Waldo Emerson: From Ali Ben Abu Taleb

Updated September 23, 2019 | Infoplease Staff

From Ali Ben Abu Taleb

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.



On two days it steads not to run from thy grave,
The appointed, and the unappointed day;
On the first, neither balm nor physician can save,
Nor thee, on the second, the Universe slay.
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