Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes:
Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.27, Harvard University Press
topic: Dream, Mistake, Ambition, Misled, Young Man
