Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson[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.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson