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
Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.
Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.