Ralph Waldo Emerson: Frases en inglés
Ralph Waldo Emerson era ensayista y poeta estadounidense. Frases en inglés.As reported by Quoteinvestigator on January 11, 2011 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/01/11/what-lies-within/ the quote appeared in “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940) by Wall Street trader Henry Stanley Haskins, "a Wall Street trader with a checkered background. The phrase was misattributed because the true author's name was initially withheld. In addition, the assignment of the maxim to a more prestigious individual, e.g., Emerson or Thoreau, made it more attractive and more believable as a nugget of wisdom." Emerson made a number of similar statements — in "The American Scholar," for example, he says "Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds" — which probably increased the likelihood of misattribution. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variante: What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. <br class="br">Variante: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”
20 December 1822
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Hamatreya
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?”
Works and Days
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.”
March 1845
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
Merlin I http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/merlin_i.htm, st. 2 <br class="br">1840s, Poems (1847)
“Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.”
Give all to Love
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.”
Quotation and Originality
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Civilization