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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




Beauty without expression is boring.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#beauty

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#friendship

The years teach much the days never know.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#teaching

Fear always springs from ignorance.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#ignorance #spring

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#integrity #integrity

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#civilization #civilized #emerson #quote #reading

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#creativity #different #individuality #non-conformist #art

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#initiative #self-education #education






About Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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