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.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes
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.
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