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
Let us be poised, wise and our own today.
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.
A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.