By courtesy we call saints and heroes such, but they are very defective characters; I cannot easily find a man I would be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his notes on Character ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Resources. Share full article. Dec. 18, 1865. ... and its influence on American character; the second, to the great mental resources opened up to the student in all these; ...

Tomorrow is Ralph Waldo Emerson's birthday! He never visited Tallahassee! No matter what you might have read. Born May 25, 1803, Emerson was a poet, lecturer, transcendentalist, abolitionist and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson for Everyone. James Marcus has written a companionable biography, meaning he always seems right next to the reader, explaining his approach as he goes along and places himself in ...

Tom Brady posted a cryptic Instagram message quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson in the wake of Gisele Bündchen's interview with Vanity Fair. The passage mentioned "false friends." ...

Emerson (1803-82) wrote his important essays (those sun-shot prose miracles of the country’s morning energy) in the years before the Civil War, before that catastrophic crack in American history.

Born in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a writer, lecturer, poet, ... he criticized her characters' single-minded focus on marriage in Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (who died in 1882 without visiting Florida again) never actually visited Prince Murat's plantation or Tallahassee. ... "Character is higher than intellect." ...