Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
