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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Time category:
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?" 4.6923 average rating  
"Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence." 2.5000 average rating  
"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance." 4.3333 average rating  
"Never read a book that is not a year old." 3.7500 average rating  
"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." 3.8333 average rating  
"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun." 4.7692 average rating  
"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine." 3.5000 average rating  
"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time." 3.8333 average rating  
"The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities." 4.5714 average rating  
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." 4.4545 average rating  
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends." 4.8000 average rating  
"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." 4.1667 average rating  
"The years teach much which the days never know." 4.7674 average rating  
"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear." 4.9286 average rating  
"If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time...is a very good one..." 2.5000 average rating  
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." 5.0000 average rating  
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." 4.8571 average rating  
"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 is the best day of the year." 4.5000 average rating  
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." 5.0000 average rating  
"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing." 5.0000 average rating  
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." 4.8846 average rating  
"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." 4.3750 average rating  
"These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger."  
 




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