If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.


The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. Graphic Arts Books, 2012) - ISBN: 9780882408781

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be...

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be...

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be...

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be...