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About Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 – 1882
American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century. Known for his essays on self-reliance, nature, and the power of the individual.
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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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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
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“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”