Quote #287
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man is made by the books he reads.
- Do not believe that you can possibly escape the reward of your action.
- Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same t…
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- To live without duties is obscene.
- Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders…
- There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
- I no more remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.