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
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
What you do speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.
Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love. Friendship,like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
A friend is the hope of the heart.
Give all to love; Obey thy heart....
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds....
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.