Skip to main content
EbooksDepository
Sign in
Essays: First Series. Prudence

Essays: First Series. Prudence

By Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

English 2025 ISBN 4069828298910
Audiobook
Buy at Bajalibros Latam 🇺🇸

Available at 12 bookshops

Bajalibros Latam Bajalibros Latam 🇺🇸 Visit store →

About this book

Prudence is not timidity. It is not caution for its own sake. It is the art of knowing when to act and when to wait, when to follow reason and when to trust instinct. In Prudence, Ralph Waldo Emerson reclaims this often-misunderstood virtue, not as mere carefulness but as the wisdom of navigating life with both vision and restraint. For Emerson, prudence is not the enemy of boldness but its quiet architect. It does not stifle ambition but shapes it, guiding passion with clarity and purpose. A mind without prudence rushes blindly; a mind ruled by it never moves at all. The balance is where true mastery lies. Part of Essays: First Series, Prudence is neither a defense of conservatism nor a rejection of daring. It is an exploration of how thought and action, reason and impulse, can coexist in harmony. To read it is to rethink not just how we act, but how we decide when to act at all.

Genres

American Essays
Language
English
Share

You might also like

Four Famous American Writers

Four Famous American Writers

Cody, Sherwin

The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman

The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman

Gilchrist, Anne, Whitman, Walt

The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One Edition

The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One Edition

Shakespeare, William, Luther, Martin, Manzoni, Alessandro, Andersen, Hans Christian, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, Thoreau, Henry David, Pascal, Blaise, Darwin, Charles, Ruskin, John, de Cervantes, Miguel, Browning, Robert, Descartes, René, Kant, Immanuel, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Racine, Jean, Burke, Edmund, Molière, De Quincey, Thomas, Smith, Adam, Franklin, Benjamin, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Mill, John Stuart, Milton, John, Webster, John, Penn, William, Renan, Ernest, Kempis, Thomas à, Bacon, Francis, Tacitus, Locke, John, Lamb, Charles, Hippocrates, Malory, Thomas, Montaigne, Michel de, Harrison, William Henry, Faraday, Michael, Corneille, Pierre, Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Augustine, Saint, Raleigh, Walter, Byron, George Gordon, Addison, Joseph, Walton, Izaak, Garrick, David, Bigges, Walter, Burns, Robert, Pretty, Francis, Steele, Richard, Pasteur, Louis, Cellini, Benvenuto, Lister, Joseph, von Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand, Drake, Francis, Haies, Edward, Paré, Ambroise, Neilson, William A., Swift, Jonathan, Homer, Grimm, Jacob, Grimm, Wilhelm, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Defoe, Daniel, Eurípides, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Voltaire, More, Thomas, Hume, David, Carlyle, Thomas, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, de la Barca, Pedro Calderón, Johnson, Samuel, Bunyan, John, Dekker, Thomas, Machiavelli, Niccolò, Aesop, Aeschylus, Aurelius, Marcus, Plato, Sophocles, Dante Alighieri, Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Hazlitt, William, Smith, Sydney, Dana, Richard Henry, Herodotus, Aristophanes, Plutarch, Epictetus, Goldsmith, Oliver, Virgil, Younger, Pliny the, Fletcher, John, Beaumont, Francis, Hunt, Leigh, Roper, William, Marlowe, Christopher, Browne, Thomas, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, Dryden, John, Poe, Edgar Alan, Sidney, Philip, Newcomb, Simon, Cowley, Abraham, Nichols, Philip, Geikie, Archibald, Woolman, John, Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, Mazzini, Giuseppe, Lowell, James Russell, Jonson, Ben, Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Hobbes, Thomas, Massinger, Philip, von Schiller, Friedrich, Berkeley, George, Harvey, William, Froissart, Jean

Alejo Carpentier. La facultad mayor de la cultura

Alejo Carpentier. La facultad mayor de la cultura

Álvarez Álvarez, Luis

Society and solitude: Twelve chapters

Society and solitude: Twelve chapters

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Emerson, Ralph Waldo