(an Insight into Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- The Writer's Almanac, MPR (05/26/2015) -
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." RWE
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston on May 26, 1803. He came from a family of Unitarian ministers ... went off to Harvard Divinity School, was ordained, and got married. He was happy, became senior pastor of Unitarian Church in Boston ... and two years after he got married, his wife Ellen died of tuberculosis at the age of nineteen. Emerson was devastated, he began to have doubts about the church. He took a leave of absence and went on vacation on the mountains of New Hampshire ... and by the time he returned, he decided to resign his post.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could ... some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston on May 26, 1803. He came from a family of Unitarian ministers ... went off to Harvard Divinity School, was ordained, and got married. He was happy, became senior pastor of Unitarian Church in Boston ... and two years after he got married, his wife Ellen died of tuberculosis at the age of nineteen. Emerson was devastated, he began to have doubts about the church. He took a leave of absence and went on vacation on the mountains of New Hampshire ... and by the time he returned, he decided to resign his post.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could ... some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
