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 passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
You cannot make a cheap palace.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.