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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#achieved #attained #cannot #only #through

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#leadership #inspirational

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#travel #beauty

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#solitude #life

Every artist was first an amateur.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#amateur #artist #every #first

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#reliability #friendship

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#knowledge

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#mind #integrity

You become what you think about all day long.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#obsession #inspirational

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#self-actualization #self-determination #determination






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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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