Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Poet & Essayist, Power
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3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
In a variant of Lord Acton’s famous quotation {292904} Caro focused on what people did with power once they had achieved it. This, he believed, revealed character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
