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
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.
The dearest events are summer-rain.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.
The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.
The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.
I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.