Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Risk
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
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When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
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