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
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
There is always safety in valor.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.