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
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
If we live truly, we shall see truly.
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Shallow men believe in luck.
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.