Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Later American politicians expounded the same view. See Otis Singletary {585931} and Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259}. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
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.
