Catálogo de libros: ralph waldo emerson

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  • Friendship
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson, FriendshipEmerson’s essay on Friendship (1841) is essentially a tribute to the ways friendship enhances human lives. In it, he stresses the happiness that two people who meet on common ground can experience. As friendships grow, both parties learn to appreciate and admire th...
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  • Compensation
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, CompensationEmerson’s essay on Compensation (1841) affirms the author’s belief that there are natural laws governing the universe which everyone must follow or risk failure. The laws Emerson is concerned with ensure balance in the universe...
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  • Art
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, ArtIn Art (1841) Emerson discusses the dual role of art in the human experience, providing opportunities for every individual to express themselves and giving all who choose it a medium to speak to eve...
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  • Circles
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world: but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, CirclesIn his essay Circles (1841), Emerson writes about how fluid the universe is and the circular pat...
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  • Heroism
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common, the heroic.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson, HeroismIn his essay on Heroism (1841), Emerson maintai...
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  • Essays
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Within man is the soul of the whole; The wise silence; The universal beauty.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, EssaysEssays: First Series (1841) is a collection of essays drafted early in Emerson’s career as a writer. In them, he elaborates on the ideas that emerged following approximately fifteen years spent studying philosophy, religion, and literature and formulating a set of beliefs t...
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  • Love
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality, but which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, LoveLove (1841) is an essay in which Emerson attempts to explain the love between two people and how it evolves with time and age. According to Emerson, youthful lovers feel a pas...
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  • Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man: space, the air, the river, the leaf.'-Ralph Waldo EmersonNature (1836) was originally written by Ralph Waldo Emerson as a long essay in which he began to break away from traditional religious and social thinking and formulated the ideas and beliefs that were basic to the philosophy of Transcendentalism. In this ...
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  • Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is a superb nature essay and a philosophical interpretation of nature and how it influences man physically and spiritually. Emerson's writing is redolent with the wonder of the true romantic, but never sinks to the level of maudlin fluff.In the essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-tr...
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