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
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
I like people who can do things
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
A man often pays dear for a small frugality.