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 martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.
The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike
Not in his goals but in his transitions is man great
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us