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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Weather, Savages
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.94

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Dream, Men
"Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures".

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Future, Men, Immortal
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, Harvard University Press

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Sleep, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, Men, Being Different
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.309, Harvard University Press

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death, Summer, July
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Guidance, Reason
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.357, Harvard University Press

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Atheist
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2728, Delphi Classics

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Perfect, Effort
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.139

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Responsibility, Men, Cities
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.242, Harvard University Press

If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Higher Ground, Lift Me Up, Lifts

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Time, Future

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Faults, Blame
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2267, Delphi Classics

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Ignorance, Knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.235

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Secret, Crime

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grief, Evil, Torment

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selfish, Selfishness, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.84, Harvard University Press

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Believe, Winter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Needs, Needed, Fairs
1839 'Each and All', l.11-12.

I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Stars, Winning

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Party, Two, Political
"The Cycles of American History". Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., p. 23, 1986.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Worry, Soul

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taken, Men, Circles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Organization, Principles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.311, Library of America

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