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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

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope, Time, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.326, Modern Library

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fitness, Health, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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”

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep, Eye, Night
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Inspiration, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Sleep, Shows
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Penguin

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Sleep

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep, Costumes, Deeds
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.156, Harvard University Press

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Sleep, Night
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.54, Harvard University Press

Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spring, Sleep, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.445, Harvard University Press

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Wall, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.206, Courier Corporation

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Lying, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Sleep, Honor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tired, Adventure, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Sleep, Sublime
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.29, Bantam Classics

How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Sleep, Incense

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Heart, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.156

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Sleep, Yield
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1338, Delphi Classics

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Song, Sleep, Writing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.92, Harvard University Press

Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Sleep, Two
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.145, Harvard University Press

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep, Waiting, Eating
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.540, Рипол Классик

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memories, Spring, Sleep
"Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Sleep, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A Nation's Strength”

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep, Power, Land
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.293

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Children, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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