3 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Future

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on future

107. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough to-day to do right, and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorn appearances, and you always may. The force of character is cumulative.

227. For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.

239. Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!