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 only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
The religions we call false were once true.
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.
A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities