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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#beauty

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#life #beauty

Every natural action is graceful.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#nature

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing.And if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them silently away


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#music #transcendentalism #music

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave five minutes longer.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#courage #courage

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#freedom

His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational






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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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