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Did Ralph Waldo Emerson say “Life is a progress, and not a station.”?

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Did Ralph Waldo Emerson say “Life is a progress, and not a station.”?

Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Source and location below.

Man's life is a progress, and not a station. His instinct is trust. Our instinct uses "more" and "less" in application to man, of the _presence of the soul_, and not of its absence; the brave man is greater than the coward; the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man, and not less, than the fool and knave. There is no tax on the good of virtue; for that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence without any comparative. Material good has its tax, and if it came without desert or sweat, has no root in me, …
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson, ¶173 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #16643 · source

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