“Nothing can be preserved that is not good.”
In Praise of Books (1860)
“Nothing can be preserved that is not good.”
In Praise of Books (1860)
“Every man is wanted and no man is wanted much.”
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Nominalist and Realist
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
History
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
Variante: Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson libro Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
“Goethe; or, the Writer” p. 271
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
“There is no knowledge that is not power.”
Old Age
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
27 June 1839
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson English Traits
English Traits, Aristocracy
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Ralph Waldo Emerson libro Nature
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Nature
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.”
Montaigne; or, The Skeptic
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
“That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
Woodnotes II http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/wood_notes_ii.htm, st. 4 <br class="br">1840s, Poems (1847)
“Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.”
St. 2 <br class="br">1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm
“Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.”
Solution
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Rhodora http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/rhodora.htm <br class="br">1840s, Poems (1847)
The Celebration of Intellect (1861)