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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational #self-confidence #inspirational

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#genius #home-schooling #humor #school #humor

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#religion #religion

As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#age

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#behavior

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#sentiment #tea #tea

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#writing #humor

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#unity

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#friendship






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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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