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Ralph Waldo Emerson (412)

Birth:	25th May, 1803
Death:	27th April, 1882
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Lecturer, Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, 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 he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

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• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

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• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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• Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

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• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

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• Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

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• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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• People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

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• Conservatism stands on man’s confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonnair and social; reform is individual and imperious.

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• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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