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Moments Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

72 Moments quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson says that power shows up in the instant a situation changes, and that spare moments are like uncut diamonds worth protecting. He also notes that art captures our most creative instant, and that old and new always weave together in every moment we live.

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Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

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Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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Real action is in silent moments.

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

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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

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A moment is a concentrated eternity.

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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good…

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People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

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All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these…

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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

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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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There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's…

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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all…

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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to…

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Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear…

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[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with…

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own…

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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets…

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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of…

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Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of…

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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear…

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All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a…

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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.…

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What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a…

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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained…

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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to…

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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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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day,…

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When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to…

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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

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We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not…

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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

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Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit…

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We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they…

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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 order of things consents to virtue.

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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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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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