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
There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
The finished man of the world must eat every apple once.
Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived, / But what torments of grief you endured / From evils which never arrived!
The times are the masquerade of the eternities
A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world
The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused
Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right.
Not in his goals but in his transitions is man great
A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes