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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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The ancestor of every action is a thought


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Nature and books belong to all who see them.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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We are wiser than we know.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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It is a happy talent to know how to play.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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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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