How much of human life is lost in waiting.

More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
• If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
• The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was...
• As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse’s neck, and trusts to...
• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
• Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab...
• The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of...
• It is not length of life, but depth of life.
• It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a...
• Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own,...
• The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.
• All life is an experiment.
• Postpone not your life.