Ralph Waldo Emerson ✓

(1803–1882) orator United States

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[Wikidata] American philosopher (1803–1882)... | [Wikipedia] Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of

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• The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. Chief
• The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man. Great
• The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. Expression
• Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern. Dare
• There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. Better
• Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with. Law
• The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who… All
• A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has… Celebrity
• The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living. Business
• We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a… Action
• The first point of courtesy must always be truth. Courtesy
• Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. Ambitious
• There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. Behavior
• Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. Breeding
• Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call. Call
• The populace drags down the gods to their own level. Down
• A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. Bold
• Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the… Ancestor
• The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. Broken
• Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. Attitude
• We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth. Different Hours
• A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up… Any
• Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. Age
• We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. Bitten
• Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. Ends

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