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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Money often costs too much


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Common sense is as rare as genius.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Nature hates calculators.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.


— 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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