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
The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
What you do speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.
Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right.
If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life; nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.
Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
No dissenter rides in his coach for three generations; he infallibly falls into the Establishment