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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Shallow men believe in luck...Strong men believe in cause and effect


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#experience

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#love #politics #state #love

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#music #transcendentalism #music

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave five minutes longer.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#courage #courage

Every natural action is graceful.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#nature

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#life #beauty

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#beauty

great is the art


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#art

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#men #relationships #woman #women #beauty






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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes




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Emerson. Emancipation is the demand of civilization". I wish to learn this language not that I may know a new grammar but that I may read the great book that is written in that tongue.

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His essays remain among the linchpins of American thinking[citation needed] and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers writers and poets that have followed him. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of publiRalph Waldo Emersond essays and more than 1500 public lectures across the United States. Together with Nature these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.

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