Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Come out of your warm, angular house, resounding with few voices, into the chill, grand, instantaneous night, with such a Presence as a full moon in the clouds.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. 11 May 1838.

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With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. 18 Sept. 1839.

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. 25 May 1843.

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

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. 31 Aug. 1838.

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

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. Aug. 1847.

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A good writer seems to be writing about himself, (but never is,) but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself, & all things.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Personal journal entry. c. 1867.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Blessed are those who have no talent!

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Personal journal entry. Feb. 1850.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Genius and Temperament, 9 April 1861." The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843-1871, edited by Joel Myerson. Vol. 2, University of Georgia Press, 2010.