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
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
The force of character is cumulative.
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.