Top 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson Reading Quotes
#1. For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#2. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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#3. Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
Jim Harrison
#4. Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.
Don DeLillo
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