“A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.”
History
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.”
History
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson libro The Conduct of Life
The Conduct of Life, Behaviour
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.”
The Divinity College Address (1838)
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson English Traits
English Traits, Race
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
“Music is the poor man's Parnassus.”
Poetry and Imagination <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“A nation never falls but by suicide.”
The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson Brahma
Brahma, st. 2
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”
Greatness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.”
The Comic <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson libro Experience
Experience
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Goethe; or, the Writer,” pp. 271-272
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
The Comic <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together
To make up a year,
And a sphere.”
Fable http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/fable.htm <br class="br">1840s, Poems (1847)
The Natural History of Intellect (1893)
“To live without duties is obscene.”
Aristocracy
1880s, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)
“The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance