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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Known as the "Sage of Concord" for his stirring oratories, Ralph Waldo Emerson came from a long line of ministers, including his father, who was a seven generation clergyman. Following the death of his two brothers and his young wife, Emerson began to doubt his own faith, renouncing his ministry. Instead, he spend much of the rest of his life writing, thinking and speaking. He is the founder of the school of thought known as Transcendentalism, which relied on intuition over scientific reason and the belief that the world held spiritual truths. During his lifetime, Emerson became one of the most respected and revered men in the United States who wrote tirelessly about power, freedom, the power of the self and social issues.

Date of Birth: May 23, 1803
Date of Death: April 27, 1882
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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Attributed to Emerson in Promotion of Pharmaceuticals : Issues, Trends, Options (1993) pg 74, and also Thoreau elsewhere, but no instance of the quote can be found before 1990, so the authorship of the quote is disputed.
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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Essays, First Series (1841), essay titled "Friendship."
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"We all live amid surfaces, and the true art is to skate well on them."
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"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
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"Hitch your wagon to a star."
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
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"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
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