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
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.
Power is the first good.
I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.
The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame...
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.