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
Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.
All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities