Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
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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