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
God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.
My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!
There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
Friendship buys friendship.
Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
Fear is cruel and mean.
The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.
Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.