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
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.
Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Today is a king in disguise.
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
Let us leave hurry to slaves.
The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.