“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.”
Letters and Social Aims, Quotation and Originality
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Social Aims
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Beauty
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
" First Visit to England http://www.emersoncentral.com/first_visit_england.htm" in English Traits http://www.emersoncentral.com/english.htm (1856)
Woonotes II, st. 7
1840s, Poems (1847)
“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.”
The Divinity College Address (1838)
February 1855
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“Nor mourn the unalterable Days
That Genius goes and Folly stays.”
In Memoriam E.B.E. http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20607&c=323, st. 9
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
June 15, 1844
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“In the vaunted works of Art
The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.”
Art
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: In the vaunted works of Art
The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Variante: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.
“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.”
Fuente: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 4, Language
“Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Prudence
“Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.”
Walter Savage Landor http://www.emersoncentral.com/walter_savage_landor.htm, from The Dial, XII (1841)
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), New England Reformers
Solution http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20586&c=323, l. 35-42
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History