“The first wealth is health.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
Power (Primary source)
In Power, Emerson asserts that true power stems from inner strength, moral integrity, and alignment with universal laws. It’s not about external control, but the inherent influence of a developed character and the ability to act effectively.
“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
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“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“I will not be triumphed over.”
— Cleopatra (unverified)“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)