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
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Give all to love; Obey thy heart....
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word...
Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.