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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

American philosopher (1803–1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.

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Alternative Names: R. W. Emerson • Waldo Emerson

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Similar: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 76.8% Henry David Thoreau 76.4% Michel de Montaigne 73.4% Friedrich Nietzsche 73.1% Thomas Carlyle 72.8% Oliver Wendell Holmes 72.5% Voltaire 71.7% George Santayana 71.6% William Hazlitt 71.3% Friedrich Schiller 71.0%
The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.

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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

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