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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, 3 Monate, 21 Tage oder 80.833 Tage alt.

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

• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

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• We forget ourselves and our destinies in health; and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

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• We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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• We need books of this tart cathartic virtue, more than books of political science or of private economy.

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• We owe a man as much consideration as a picture which we carefully hang in a favourable light.

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• We own to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man man.

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• We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.

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• We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

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• Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

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• What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

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• What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.

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• What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

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• What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

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• Whatever limits us we call Fate.

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them.

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• When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits; on his manhood; he has gained the facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

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• When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

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• When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

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• When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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