Comprehensive information about Ralph Waldo Emerson including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. 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. This educational Ralph Waldo Emerson resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Science Go to Quote / Comment
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Go to Quote / Comment
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. Go to Quote / Comment
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination. Go to Quote / Comment
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. Go to Quote / Comment