Ralph Waldo Emerson: Frases en inglés
Ralph Waldo Emerson era ensayista y poeta estadounidense. Frases en inglés.Widely attributed to Emerson on the internet, this actually originates with "What is Success?” http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/Ephemera/Success.html by Bessie Anderson Stanley in Heart Throbs Volume Two (1911) edited by Joseph Mitchell Chapple. <br class="br">Misattributed
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Worship
Worship
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Variante: The louder they talked of their honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Fuente: The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading
“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”
Fuente: Essays and Lectures
The Conservative http://www.rwe.org/the-conservative/ (1842)
“Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson libro Quatrains
Quatrains, Nature
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Brahma
Brahma http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20567&c=323, st. 1. <br class="br">Composed in July 1856 this poem is derived from a major passage of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most popular of Hindu scriptures, and portions of it were likely a paraphrase of an existing translation. Though titled "Brahma" its expressions are actually more indicative of the Hindu concept "Brahman" <br class="br">1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867) <br class="br">Variante: If the red slayer think he slays, <br> Or if the slain think he is slain, <br> They know not well the subtle ways <br> I keep, and pass, and turn again.
“In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.”
Prudence
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.
“Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill!”
Suum Cuique
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill!