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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Self trust is the essence of heroism.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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The never-ending task of self improvement.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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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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