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
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.
If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.
Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.
If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.
If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.