| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 6272 |
| AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) |
| QUOTATION: | If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Nature. Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar. |
| | Note 1. Everything comes if a man will only wait.Disraeli: Tancred, book iv. chap. viii. [back] |
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