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Character

Character

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Paperback

Philosophy19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1646795210
ISBN13: 9781646795215
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Jan 1 1844
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.09
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Character (1844)


Character (1844), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is connected to the author's other writings in which he attempted to define the values that are central to the philosophical system he was creating. Character, according to Emerson, is a form of greatness which can be perceived by its effects more than by any direct manifestation. Evidence of character is a cheerful self-sufficiency, as well as by a person's incessant growth of the soul.

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