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

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Death Quotes

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house...

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house...

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

We all boil at different degrees

We all boil at different degrees

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual...

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual...

To be simple is to be great

To be simple is to be great

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too...

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too...

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the...

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the...

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for...

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for...

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The years teach much which the days never know.

The years teach much which the days never know.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing,...

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing,...

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire -...

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire -...

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality,...

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality,...