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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#love

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational #life #inspirational

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#vote #elections

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#jmp #love #love

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#politics #religion #religion

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#education

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#favorite-author #life #experience

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, — "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#friendship

Science does not know its debt to imagination.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#imagination

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#body #history #politics #soul #beauty






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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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