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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#humanity #character

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#enlightenment #learning #reading #writing #creativity

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#change

Nothing external to you has any power over you.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inner-peace #inner-peace

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational-quotes #nature #trees #inspirational

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#humor

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#spiritual

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#library

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#life #inspirational






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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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