Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature". Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "inte...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems

• Fragments On The Poet And The Poetic Gift
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  There are beggars in Iran and Araby,
  SAID was hungrier than all; ...
• Nahant
  All day the waves assailed the rock,
  I heard no church-bell chime,
  The sea-beat scorns the minster clock
  And breaks the glass of Time....
• September
  In the turbulent beauty
  Of a gusty Autumn day,
  Poet on a sunny headland
  Sighed his soul away. ...
• Written At Rome
  Alone in Rome. Why, Rome is lonely too;--
  Besides, you need not be alone; the soul
  Shall have society of its own rank.
  Be great, be true, and all the Scipios, ...
• Self-reliance
  Henceforth, please God, forever I forego
  The yoke of men's opinions. I will be
  Light-hearted as a bird, and live with God.
  I find him in the bottom of my heart, ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

• All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
• Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.
• Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce
• It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
• What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

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Comments about Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• X72oe: “judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.” ~ ralph waldo emerson

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