"Our high respect for a well-read man is……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't… — Teri Hatcher
• The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero.… — James Hillman
• There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life… — Wallace D. Wattles
• I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough… — Hector Elizondo
• Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. — Howard Mumford Jones
• I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some… — Herman Melville
• President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we… — Heber J. Grant
• "All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority… — Emma Goldman
• Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged… — Leon Edel
• India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian… — Lin Yutang
• The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson — David Allen
• To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day… — Jim Valvano

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