Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON, the most original of American philosophers and essayists, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 25, 1803, and he died at Concord, in his native State, April 27, 1882. His father was a Unitarian minister, and the boy was trained for the same profession. Emerson entered Harvard University at the age of fourteen and graduated at eighteen. He was ordained minister of a Boston Unitarian congregation in 1829, but changes in his religious views led to his resignation of his cha.. Continue..

Some of Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems

Fate

Days

Give All To Love

Celestial Love

Two Rivers

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	A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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