Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
“Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essayist and philosopher · 1803 – 1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist and philosopher who led the Transcendentalist movement, arguing for self-reliance, intuition and the spiritual presence in nature. His essays 'Nature' and 'Self-Reliance' shaped American thought, and he mentored both Thoreau and Whitman.
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