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
We often read with as much talent as we write.
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.
It is the eye which makes the horizon.
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.