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
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Out live the newest stars.
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
Our expenses are all for conformity.
The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
Every man is eloquent once in his life.
Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.