God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Quotes from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed — 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)
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
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)
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
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