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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

Average, Distance, Greatness, Ship, Voyage

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

Compassion, Degrading, Lovely

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

Answers, Ask, Asks, Delusive, Language, Words

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Men, Mind, Revolution, Thinking, Thought

I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

Hours, Humanity, May, Postponed, Think, Thinking

. . . in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages. . . in the woods we return to reason and faith.

Connate, Faith, Reason, Return, Village, Woods

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Conversation, May, Part, Sort, Three, Two

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Ape, Apes, Conformity, Harmony, Peace

'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

Boys, Eye, Keeps, Look, Perfect, Science

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

Cheerful, Culture, Face, Intelligent

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

Force, Inspirational, Men, Places, Room, Rooms

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

Air, Airs, Human Condition, Landlord, Tavern, Taverns

If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Beautiful, Hands, Same, Sea, Stars, Time

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Indifference, Journey, Journeys, Places, Tourism, Travel

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Acrostic, Character, Spells, Stills

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

Hands, Lose, Solitude, Sympathy

We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

Friends, Beautiful, Men, Moment, Entitled

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Enough, Eye, Long, See, Tired

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

And Love, Follow, Greatness, Let, Levity, Love

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

Boys, Girl, People, Sauntering, School, Shops

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