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
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
I honor health as the first Muse.
Power is the first good.
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
The finest poetry was first experience.
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
First be a good animal.
Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.