“Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid-1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society. 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. As a result of this ground-breaking work he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Considered one of the great orators of the time, Emerson's enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. His support for abolitionism late in life created controversy, and at times he was subject to abuse from crowds while speaking on the topic. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
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“Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.”
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
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“To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”
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“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
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“Nature is saturated with deity.”
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“Earth laughs in flowers.”
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“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it sere...”
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“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
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“The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.”
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.”
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“The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he until he has tried.”
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“Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.”
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“There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.”
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“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
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“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
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“The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts, and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.”
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“Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.”
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“There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that...”
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