"Use makes a better soldier than the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.”
“Every man is an impossibility until he is born.”
“Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?”
More on Experience
“When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.”
“If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.”
“We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.”
More on Skill
“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
“There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.”
“We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.”