Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Time
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.241, Harvard University Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.326, Modern Library
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.284
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.46, Harvard University Press
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.407
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
1870 Society and Solitude,'Old Age'.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.403, Library of America
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.27, Xist Publishing
All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.160, The Floating Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1881). “Representative men. Society and solitude”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1178, Delphi Classics