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Informationen über Ralph Waldo Emerson

Theologe, Pfarrer, Schriftsteller, "Conduct Of Life", gilt als der bedeutendste amerikanische Philosoph (USA, 1803 - 1882).

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Ralph Waldo Emerson wäre heute 221 Jahre, 10 Monate, 8 Tage oder 81.032 Tage alt.

Geboren am 25.05.1803 in Boston
Gestorben am 27.04.1882 in Concord/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• There is always safety in valor.

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• There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress.

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• There is no strong performance without a little fascination in the performer.

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• There is no teaching until the public is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

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• There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory - except a great defeat.

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• There is properly no history; only biography.

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• There never was a child so lovely but that his mother was glad to get him asleep.

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• They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

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• Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

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• Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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• Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.

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• This time, like all other times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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• Thou art to me a delicious torment.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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• Thought . . . quickly tends to convert itself into a power, and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.

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• Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it.

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• Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

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• Times of heroism are generally times of terror.

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• To be great is to be misunderstood.

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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

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