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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet.
* He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1803.
* He graduated from Harvard University in 1821.
* He was a Unitarian minister for a short time, but he left the ministry in 1832.
* He was a leading figure in the transcendentalist movement.
* He wrote many essays, including "Self-Reliance" and "Nature."
* He died in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1882.
* He is considered one of the most important figures in American literature.
* His ideas have had a profound influence on American thought and culture.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
You become what you think about all day long.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
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