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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Self-Reliance,” Essays, First Series (1841).

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Titles by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• Self-Reliance
• The Rhodora
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eNotes:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Rhodora)

Encyclopedia:

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (World Philosophers and Their Works)

Literary Criticism:

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Poetry Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson is born
• Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers a Phi Beta Kappa speech, “The American Scholar”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers his “Divinity School Address” at Harvard Divinity School
• Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes Essays
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