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Ralph Waldo Emerson45 quotes
Always do what you are afraid to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1837Come out of your warm, angular house, resounding with few voices, into the chill, grand, instantaneous night, with such a Presence as a full moon in the clouds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1838Men are what their mothers made them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1860All 45 quotes →C.F. Forbes1 quote
The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. — C.F. Forbes · 1875