| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1820 |
| AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) |
| QUOTATION: | This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “The American Scholar,” oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 31, 1837.—Nature, Addresses and Lectures (vol. 3 of The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), p. 105 (1906). |
| SUBJECTS: | Times |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection | | |
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