Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes:
Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation
topic: Lying, Fate, Men, Battered
