Ralph Waldo Emerson New Quotations

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most!

The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

New York is a sucked orange.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.