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
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Then the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out/ I went into a spin and I started to shout/ I've been hit. This is it. This is it! I . . T . . . IT!
Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence
It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.
What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion.
Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy