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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a famous American preacher, philosopher, and poet of the 19th century who served as the center of the Transcendental movement.


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Quote Left We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their... Quote Right
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Quote Left What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say. Quote Right
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Quote Left If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? Quote Right
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Quote Left The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emble... Quote Right
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Quote Left The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs