BiographyType: Essayist, Lecturer, and Poet Born: May 25, 1803,Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Died: : April 27, 1882 (aged 78),Concord, Ma Ralph Waldo Emerson—a New England preacher, essayist, lecturer, poet, and philosopher—was one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the nineteenth century in the United States. |
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
The only true gift is a portion of thyself.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it-else it is none.
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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