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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#freedom #gold #libertarianism #freedom

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational #inspirational

Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#emersonian #life #life

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#men

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#speech #men

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#creativity #inspirations #living #resilience #inspirational

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#life

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#nature

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#battle #conquest #honest #life #living






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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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