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
If you can do a thing once, you can do it twice. If you can do it twice, you can make a habit out of it
For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.
Then the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out/ I went into a spin and I started to shout/ I've been hit. This is it. This is it! I . . T . . . IT!
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could? someblunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can.Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to beencumbered with your old nonsense.
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform, which dares not yet name itself, advances
No dissenter rides in his coach for three generations; he infallibly falls into the Establishment
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life; nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.