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
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.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful
Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.