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
Love is the essence of God....
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.
Knowledge is the only elegance.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Earth laughs in flowers.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.