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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Intelligence
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson