Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.


The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1870)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.