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
I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
A little integrity is better than any career.
We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.
A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.
The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.