A man is what he thinks about all day long.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
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No change of circumstance can repair a defect of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Useless quote for 7 Dec:
"We never touch but at points."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his "Journals", 19 May 1837 (aged 33)
I saw this quote and immediately thought about most of the MAGA supporters, radical right extremists, racists, and unfortunately some on the left as well.
People need to learn the difference between being contradicted and being truly persecuted.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist as well as the foremost representative of the transcendentalist movement of the early to mid-19th century. #History #RalphWaldoEmerson #Philosophy #AmericanLiterature #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson/
Useless quote for 26 Jun:
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1876
Since #RalphWaldoEmerson was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1803, he is our pick for #MidnightMeditations.
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all [people],—that is genius" ~ #Emerson
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The great man makes the great thing." #RalphWaldoEmerson, "The American Scholar"
"The bad man makes the bad thing." (fill in the adjective of your choice)
"The great man makes the great thing." #RalphWaldoEmerson, "The American Scholar"
"The bad man makes the bad thing." (fill in the adjective of your choice)
"I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech." "The American Scholar"
"The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language." -- Nature
My next boost is for all of you Ralph Waldo Emerson fans. #RalphWaldoEmerson #Emerson #Poetry #TransparentEyeball #Transcendentalism
Useless quote for 22 July:
"Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From evils which never arrived!"
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1867