Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.


Goethe; or, the Writer, p. 272. - Representative Men (1850)


The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.