We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  1. I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. - John Keats

  2. Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life. - Suzanne Collins

  3. I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself. - Mitch Albom

  4. The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. - Criss Jami

  5. Money! It's all about money! It's all it ever is these days! - Anthony T. Hincks

More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
  1. Love, and you shall be loved.

  2. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  3. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

  4. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  5. It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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