Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century.

"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What I must do is all that concerns me,."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Culture with us ends in headache."
Ralph Waldo Emerson