God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Attributed quotes — Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803–1882 United States
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in everywhere.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
These preachers of beauty, which light the world with their admonishing smile.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man but in every particle.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that, I can learn of him.
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For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own spine.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
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Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
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