My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson; the picture was taken at the Linnean Society last summer.
But these young scholars who invade our hills,
Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
And travelling often in the cut he makes,
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,
And all their…
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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…