Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes


For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?


Citations

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations, Vol. IX, 1856-1863. Edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, p. 274.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Born: May 25, 1803
  • Died: April 27, 1882
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist 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.