This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Since everyone else is doing it, I'll go along with the game, and post five random quotes that "reflect who you are or what you believe," chosen from the randomizer at quotationspage.com.
This actually took a while, because I'm not wild about most of what they throw out. I'll throw in a bonus sixth…
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon…
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side ... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time ... is a very good one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson