Ralph Waldo Emerson: So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each perso

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine and so much in r — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instea — Leo Tolstoy
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourse — Henry David Thoreau
How much more than is necessary do we spend in Sleep! forgetting that The sleepi — Benjamin Franklin
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. — Émile Zola
Whenever you do what is holy, be of good cheer, knowing that God Himself takes p — Menander
Verlaine , a dunghill Socrates. — Jules Renard
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is we — Michel de Montaigne
Man cannot change what pen hath writ of yore, Diet of sorrow breedeth heart-pang — Omar Khayyám