As soon as there is life there is danger.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Life Quotes

We all boil at different degrees

We all boil at different degrees

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a...

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a...

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in...

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in...

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made,...

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made,...

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not...

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not...

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for...

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for...

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

The greatest man in history was the poorest

The greatest man in history was the poorest

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well...

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well...

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make...

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make...

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are...

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are...

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...