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
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Lose yourself in nature and find peace
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Let there be worse cotton and better men.
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
Conformity is the ape of harmony.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
My hours are peaceful centuries.