About Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and...
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My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding overman's capacity for evil.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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