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Ralph Waldo Emerson, né le 25 mai 1803 à Boston et mort le 27 avril 1882 à Concord , est un essayiste, philosophe et poète américain, chef de file du mouvement transcendantaliste américain du début du XIXe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. mai 1803 – 27. avril 1882   •   Autres noms Ральф Эмерсон
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“Qu’est-ce qu’une herbe? Une plante dont les vertus n’ont pas encore été découvertes […].”

La Destinée de la République (Fortune of the Republic), 1878

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Citations en anglais

“Never read any book that is not a year old.”

In Praise of Books
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.”

Intellect
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.”

1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)

“God said, I am tired of kings,
I suffer them no more;
Up to my ear the morning brings
The outrage of the poor.”

Boston Hymn http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1177/, st. 2
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)

Ralph Waldo Emerson citation: “We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.”

“We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson livre Experience

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience

“Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.”

Journal, 328, Nov. 15, 1839, http://www.perfectidius.com/Volume_5_1838-1841.pdf
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

“Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As the best gem upon her zone.”

St. 3
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

History
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variante: A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud…

“Fear not, then, thou child infirm;
There's no god dare wrong a worm.”

Compensation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Fear not, then, thou child infirm;
There's no god dare wrong a worm.

“Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.”

Ode to Beauty
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.

“For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?”

Good Bye
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?

“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.”

1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)

“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not,
And all their botany is Latin names.”

Blight
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.”

1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality

“Though love repine, and reason chafe,
There came a voice without reply, —
"'Tis man's perdition to be safe,
When for the truth he ought to die."”

Sacrifice
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
Variante: Though love repine, and reason chafe,
There came a voice without reply, —
"'Tis man's perdition to be safe,
When for the truth he ought to die."

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