Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
Do what you fear and your fear will die.
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.