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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#love

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#self-reliance #self-trust #trust #confidence

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#foolish #little-minds #philosophers #philosophical

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#genius

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#correcting #correction #criticism #inspirational #dreams

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#life

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#wisdom #wonder #appreciation

Love, and you shall be loved.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#love

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#originality

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#death






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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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