Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Today

• Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Progress, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.274, Harvard University Press

• Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1279, Delphi Classics

• Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Holiday, Nymphs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press

• I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Wish, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.239, Harvard University Press

• How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honor, Crowds, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.265

• We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

• 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”

• The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Morning, Weather

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.187

• Today is a king in disguise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Kings, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1178, Delphi Classics

• 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

• Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Equality, Today, Tomorrow

• Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Life And Love, Today

• 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

• Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.479, Library of America

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Perfect, Rose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.27, Xist Publishing

• The sun shines today also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shining, Today, Sun

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

• I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.182, Harvard University Press

• Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Today Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.131, 谷月社

• The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Future, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1175, Delphi Classics

• I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Lying, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

• We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Yesterday, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.233, University of Georgia Press

• Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Prayer, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.560, Library of America

• Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
  Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Wise, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.479, Library of America

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