Always do what you are afraid to do.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

About Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as...

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger.

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The years teach much which the days never know.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

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