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 influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
Who loses a day loses life.
Life is too short to waste.
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there
This time is a very good one if we but know what to do with it
This time,like all times, is a good time, if we but know what to do with it.
Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy
Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love. Friendship,like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.