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
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.