A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave f… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

inspirational brave

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About Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,— "'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die."