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FREEDOM CALLING - Ralph Waldo Emerson's Writings
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Emerson was a major influence on Celia, the main character in Freedom Calling.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1803. He graduated from Harvard in 1821. He lived in in the antebellum South for a few years. He was opposed to slavery and supported President Lincoln, but was disappointed that Lincoln's greater goal was to preserve the Union and was less concerned with putting an end to slavery.
Emerson also traveled to Europe, but for most of his life he lived in Concord, Massachusetts. He called himself a transcendentalist and wrote a plethora of wonderful essays representing the core of his thinking, which include the well-known essays, "Nature", "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", and "Experience." His writings never boasted fixed philosophical tenets but instead promoted ideas of personal individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to achieve anything it could imagine. He also deeply explored the relationship between one's soul and the surrounding world.
A Few of Emerson's Quotes about BOOKS:
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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Emerson was a major influence on Celia, the main character in Freedom Calling.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1803. He graduated from Harvard in 1821. He lived in in the antebellum South for a few years. He was opposed to slavery and supported President Lincoln, but was disappointed that Lincoln's greater goal was to preserve the Union and was less concerned with putting an end to slavery.
Emerson also traveled to Europe, but for most of his life he lived in Concord, Massachusetts. He called himself a transcendentalist and wrote a plethora of wonderful essays representing the core of his thinking, which include the well-known essays, "Nature", "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", and "Experience." His writings never boasted fixed philosophical tenets but instead promoted ideas of personal individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to achieve anything it could imagine. He also deeply explored the relationship between one's soul and the surrounding world.
A Few of Emerson's Quotes about BOOKS:
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotes
BOOK: Freedom Calling by Dana Vacca
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes:
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
And I will end with his best quote:.....
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes:
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
And I will end with his best quote:.....
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
SEE MORE (w/ photos) on my Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
Freedom Calling A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
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