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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




Imitation is suicide.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#simplicity #simplicity

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#honesty

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#virtue

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#life

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#food

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#age

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#enjoy-life #hope #perseverance #courage

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


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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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