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.
Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life; nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.
A man's what he thinks about all day long
For everything you have missed you have gained something
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.