Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Security

• Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Transition, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

• No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Three, Prosperity

• If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sincerity, Mood, Prophet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

• The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Wise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1230, Delphi Classics

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