Ralph Waldo Emerson citations

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

Solitude et Société ('), 1870

Source: Self-Reliance

The Conservative http://www.rwe.org/the-conservative/ (1842)

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

Brahma http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&amp;p=c&amp;a=p&amp;ID=20567&amp;c=323, st. 1. <br class="br">Composed in July 1856 this poem is derived from a major passage of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most popular of Hindu scriptures, and portions of it were likely a paraphrase of an existing translation. Though titled &quot;Brahma&quot; its expressions are actually more indicative of the Hindu concept &quot;Brahman&quot; <br class="br">1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867) <br class="br">Variante: If the red slayer think he slays, <br> Or if the slain think he is slain, <br> They know not well the subtle ways <br> I keep, and pass, and turn again.

Prudence
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.

Suum Cuique
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill!

No known source in Emerson&#x27;s works; first found as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom in a 1936 newspaper column:<br>: Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.<br>:* Junius, &quot;Office Cat&quot; https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85995624/, The Daily Freeman [Kingston, NY] (30 December 1936), p. 6 <br class="br">Misattributed

Source: Emerson in His Journals

Variante: Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Source: Self Reliance
Contexte: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Attributed to Emerson in Life’s Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness (2000) by H. Jackson Brown Jr., as well as numerous on-line sources since, the article &quot;The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy But To Matter&quot; at the Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/29/purpose/ indicates that this quote is probably derived from various statements first made by Leo Rosten, including the following words delivered at the National Book Awards held in New York in 1962: &quot;The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.&quot; <br class="br">Misattributed

Works and Days
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

Attributed to Emerson in The Gift of Depression : Twenty-one Inspirational Stories Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope (2001) by John F. Brown, p. 56, no prior occurrence of this a statement has been located; it seems to be derived from one which occurs in The Alchemist (1988) by Paulo Coelho, p. 22: When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Misattributed

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles