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
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
Skill to do comes of doing.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
Knowledge is the antidote to fear