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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




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


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#friendship

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#nature

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#transcendentalists #men

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#beauty

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#honesty #speaking-your-mind #fearless

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#be strong #character #great #higher #intellect

Books are for nothing but to inspire


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#books #writing #inspirational

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#courage #courage-to-be-oneself #independent-thought #lightning #lightning-rod

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#beauty






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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes




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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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