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
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.
Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.
There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.
Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.