Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.”
“Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.”
— 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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