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
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself.
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold
All history is biography.
Doing well is a result of doing good.
The sun shines today also.
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Imitation cannot go above its model.
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
Let us leave hurry to slaves.
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
Today is a king in disguise.