Ralph Waldo Emerson on Courage
1803–1882 United States
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.