Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Past

• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Sacred, Facts

  Essays Circles (p. 297)

• But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Peace, Power

  "A Year with Emerson: A Daybook".

• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Time, Moving Forward

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.241, Harvard University Press

• We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Mindfulness, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.107, Harvard University Press

• None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Accomplishment, Achievement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2664, Delphi Classics

• Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Fear, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.181, Harvard University Press

• It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Past, Judging

• The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Lying, Loss

  "The prose works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In two volumes" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2005.

• We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Past, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

• The forest waves, the morning breaks,
  The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,
  Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be
  And life pulsates in rock or tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Nature, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.59, Рипол Классик

• It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Past, Doe

• Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Diving Deep, Sea

• All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Past, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3985, Delphi Classics

• We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Past, Optimism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

• But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Eye, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1283, Delphi Classics

• Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Past, Parent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.125, Penguin

• Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Snakes, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.159, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

• Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Past, Transition

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

• Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Soul, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press

• We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Past, Wrath

• The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

• Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Past, People

• Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Thinking, Dry Bones

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

• What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Courage, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909). “Essays and English Traits”

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