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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#imagination #beauty

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#day #encountered #event #life #mind

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#nature #inspirational

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#holy #philosopher #poet #sacred #men

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#landscape #nature #nature-s-beauty #beauty

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#nature #beauty

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#authors #creativity #imagination #imagination






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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes




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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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