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...
More quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
The strongest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
—Ovid
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
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