Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
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
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
