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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes about time

American Poet, Writer, Philosopher May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense..."
Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Turn the eye upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years! Ralph Waldo Emerson
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate;--debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know..."
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted..."
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken, and the phrase will be th fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine,..."
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for..."
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession..."
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up..."
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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