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
There can be no high civility without a deep morality
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could? someblunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can.Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to beencumbered with your old nonsense.
It came into him life, it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went from him poetry. It was a dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in porportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it live.
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
The highest Beauty should be plain set.
Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
The highest virtue is always against the law.
If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.
Everything good is on the highway.
I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.