Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Time Quotes, Perfect Quotes

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

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See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.

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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

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So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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

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Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.

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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup.

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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

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

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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

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The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

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Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

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