It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young pe… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.

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Alternative Names: R. W. Emerson • Waldo Emerson

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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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