12 February 1851; compare the remark of John Wilkes about Samuel Johnson, "Liberty is as ridiculous in his mouth as Religion in mine" (20 March 1778), quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) by James Boswell.
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Frases en inglés (página 25)
Ralph Waldo Emerson era ensayista y poeta estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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Astræa
1840s, Poems (1847)
Quoted in Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson, the Mind On Fire (Univ. of Calif Press 1995), p. 124
“Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.”
Poetry and Imagination
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)
Each and All, st. 3
1840s, Poems (1847)
Variante: I wiped away the weeds and foam,
And fetched my sea-born treasures home;
But the poor, unsightly, noisome things
Had left their beauty on the shore
With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.
“For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?”
Boston
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worship
Worship
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
Plato; or, The Philosopher
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Variante: Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life".
“I hung my verse in the wind
Time and tide their faults will find.”
"The Test", as quoted in Emerson As A Poet (1883) by Joel Benton, p. 40
In Memoriam
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Social Aims
Sometimes condensed to "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
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)
“There are two laws discrete
Not reconciled,
Law for man, and law for thing.”
Ode Inscribed to W.H. Channing http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/ode_inscribed_to_william_h_channing.htm, st. 9
1840s, Poems (1847)
St. 2
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm
Boston Hymn, st. 17
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)