Thought of the day by Ralph Waldo Emerson shares a clear message on life direction. The quote urges people to move forward ...

Quote of the day by Ralph Waldo Emerson reflects the intellectual and moral ideals that guided his life and writings. Born on ...

Last February, Harvard’s Belknap Press issued the final volume of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Collected Works, a project that had taken over 40 years. It was conceived at the beginning of what is now called ...

Since the 19th century, Americans have looked to Ralph Waldo Emerson for wisdom on many subjects, from education to religion to politics. Today, surrounded by political storms and the sorrow and ...

Professor Eugene Irey's retirement project, and his dream, was to produce a concordance to the entire works of Emerson. Gene started producing it by hand; he was not satisfied with the functionality ...

Work, some of us declare with some pride and some resignation, is one of life's greatest pleasures. Getting work done feels good. The other side of that pleasure is anxiety: anxiety about failure to ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, was an influential American essayist, poet and public lecturer, widely regarded as the foremost voice of ...

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A celebration of the thinker and Atlantic co-founder—and perhaps America's original geek—208 years after his birth Emerson: The Ideal in America is the first documentary about the life and work of the ...

FOR a museum with a deep history, the Ralph Waldo Emerson House has had a short line of caretakers. Apart from a few fill-in housekeepers, couples tend to move into the servants’ wing and stay not for ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 15, 1803, in the interregnum between two wars: one the revolution that birthed America and the second a bitter sequel that confirmed its independence. The United ...

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