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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

State

World

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men

Mothers

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.