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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Selfish, Future
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.502, Library of America

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Future, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Complaining, Red

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Past, Made
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Animal, Joy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.86, Coyote Canyon Press

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Wisdom, Time
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Education, Time
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.61, 谷月社

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

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Moments, Eternity
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.220, Harvard University Press

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Nature, Wells

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Plato, Hands
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Illusion, Conviction
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1120, Library of America

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Preparation, Routine

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

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Men, Feet
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Political, Individuality

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Reality, Surprise
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.216, Penguin

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Stars, Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sports, Time, Space
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.57, Penguin

The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Self, Dues
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, Рипол Классик

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Hero, Shining
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.353, Рипол Классик

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Opinion, Tomorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Danger, Calamity

The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning, Time, Black And White
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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