Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a 19th-century American essayist and philosopher known for his ideas on individualism and nature, particularly in his work 'Self-Reliance.'

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Born
May 25, 1803
Died
April 27, 1882
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"Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go."

Dream Sadness Home
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"We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration."

Kindness Wind Selfishness
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"There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement."

Party Two Movement
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"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."

People Balance Easy
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"As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men."

Laughter Wine Men
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"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine."

Self Esteem Pride Light
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"There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul."

Soul Satisfaction Remedy
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"There are some men above grief and some men below it."

Grief Men
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"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."

Thinking Today Tomorrow
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"Give all to love; Obey thy heart."

Love Love You Heart
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"There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word."

Listening Guidance Right Words
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"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."

Time Cynical Haste
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"The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy."

Beauty Perfect Lines
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"Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty."

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

Writing Arrows Body
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"Cause and effect are two sides of one fact."

Two Sides Causes Facts
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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness."

Inspirational Greatness Thinking
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Birthday Time Men
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