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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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a man only knows what he's experienced


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#judgement #life #experience

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#dreams

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#writing #inspirational

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#defeat #inspirational #learn #man #motivational

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#nature #symbolism #nature

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#history #purpose #vocation #age

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#men

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#courage-to-be-oneself #individuality #change

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational #ralph-waldo-emerson #freedom

This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#motivational






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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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