Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoso would ever be a man, must be a noncomformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
it was a high counsel I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.