The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.


The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1883)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.