Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
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8 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 25 May 1803, Boston, Massachusetts (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 27 Apr 1882, of pneumonia; buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Boston Latin School from 1812; Harvard College, graduated 1821; Harvard Divinity School from late 1824 (opens wiqqi.app)
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50 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Trusting your own private conviction as universally true is what genius is (opens korrents.com)
“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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Envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide (opens korrents.com)
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe…”
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Society works against the independence of each of its members (opens korrents.com)
“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender…”
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Trusting your own private conviction as universally true is what genius is (opens korrents.com)