For Every Minute You Are Angry

Despite near-universal attribution to Emerson, Quote Investigator found no evidence this saying appears in his writings. The earliest identified instance appeared anonymously in a California newspaper in 1934; the first attribution to Emerson emerged in a 1955 quotation anthology by Jacob M. Braude with no source cited. Emerson died in 1882, more than fifty years before the saying can be documented in print, making the attribution almost certainly a later attachment.