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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#naturalism #nature #nature-writing #faith

Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational

Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#age

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#men #relationships #woman #women #beauty

To Laugh Often & to Love much


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#love

The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken, and the phrase will be th fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#music

Live in the sunshine


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational #life #inspirational

A man is what he thinks about all day long.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#all day #day #long #man #thinks

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#angry #every #give #mind #minute

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#age #best #mean #oldest #played






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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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