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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




Dream delivers us to dream and there is no end to illusion.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#men

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Shallow men believe in luck...Strong men believe in cause and effect


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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great is the art


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.


— 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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