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
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
Meek young men grow up in libraries.
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
Society has no bribe for me...
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Whatever you do, you need courage.
I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
My life is not an apology, but a life.
I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.
God hides things by putting them near us.