Watches Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

8 Watches quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s eight brief notes on watches weave together the ticking of a clock with inner awareness, suggesting that timekeeping can mirror personal growth.

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'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those…

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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to…

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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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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with…

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the…

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Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the…

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Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is…

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…

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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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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

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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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