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
Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.
Thought is the seed of action.
Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
The best part of health is fine disposition
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the wild air's salubrity.