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Years Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
- My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can…
- The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
- We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when…
- We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in…
- It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
- Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
- It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
- In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and…
- Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries…
- Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual…
- If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
- Each moment of the year has its own beauty.
- Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized…
- Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil…
- The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss…
- If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
- The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is…
- One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day…
- The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and…
- Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
- The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench…
- The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any…
- The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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