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
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 Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
We may be partial, but Fate is not.
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.
To be gret is to be misunderstood.
It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.
Your work should be in praise of what you love.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.