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Time Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

257 Time quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson notes that time reveals the hidden rewards of hardship after long intervals. He points out that we may feel idle yet accomplish much, and that true power appears in the instant of change rather than steady rest. He also warns that delaying hopes fills time with idle jokes and excuses.

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Real action is in silent moments.

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Today is a king in disguise.

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“The years teach much the days never know.”

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Be not the slave of your own past.

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It is time to be old To take in sail.

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The surest poison is time.

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Genius appeals to the future.

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Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

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“This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it”

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

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It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

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Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

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In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal…

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded…

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The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as…

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until…

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its…

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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with…

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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that…

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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel…

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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or…

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“The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or…

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What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time…

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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region…

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“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and…

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The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself…

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If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,…

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“Days" Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems…

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When I converse with a profound mind, or if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at…

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The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"…

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“What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to every new thought of his time? Have you leisure,…

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“The man not only thinks, but speaks and acts. Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass…

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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