Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Time
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The surest poison is time.
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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.
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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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Let us leave hurry to slaves.
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Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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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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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.
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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 days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
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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 hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.
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We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
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Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.
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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
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Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.
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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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