Ralph Waldo Emerson
United States
25 May 1803 // 27 Apr 1882
Author / Poet/ Philosopher
25 May 1803 // 27 Apr 1882
Author / Poet/ Philosopher
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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
The best of life is conversation
The ancestor of every action is a thought
Some books leave us free and some books make us free
Skill to do comes of doing
Science does not know its debt to imagination
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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