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
We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.
I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
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.