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Informationen über Ralph Waldo Emerson

Theologe, Pfarrer, Schriftsteller, "Conduct Of Life", gilt als der bedeutendste amerikanische Philosoph (USA, 1803 - 1882).

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Ralph Waldo Emerson wäre heute 221 Jahre, 10 Monate, 10 Tage oder 81.034 Tage alt.

Geboren am 25.05.1803 in Boston
Gestorben am 27.04.1882 in Concord/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

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• Poverty demoralizes.

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• Power is the first good.

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• Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

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• Pride ruined the angels.

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• Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.

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• Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions.

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• Prudence is the virtue of the sense. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

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• Quotations confess inferiority.

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• Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

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• Sanity is very rare.

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• Self-truth is the essence of heroism.

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• Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.

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• Skepticism is slow suicide.

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• So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

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• Society is a fancy dress ball, where every one hides his true character and betrays it by doing so.

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• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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• Some men are born to own; can animate all their possessions. Others cannot; Their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character; they seem to steal their own dividends.

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• Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

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• Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

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