Original artwork, not a still
"Works and Days," Society and Solitude · 1870
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Emerson urges you to carry one belief inside: every day is the best of the year. Then he adds that nobody really understands until they know every day is a final reckoning. Together, the two lines push you to treat today as fully counting.
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