“Le symptôme invariable de la science humaine est de voir du miraculeux dans les choses vulgaires.”
Essai sur la nature ('), 1836
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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
Solitude et Société ('), 1870
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Citations en anglais
Works and Days
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
Said to a young Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., as reported by Felix Frankfurter in Harlan Buddington Phillips, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960), p. 59
“I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
Epigraph to History
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
"Education" http://books.google.com/books?id=iRAWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Respect+the+child+Be+not+too+much+his+parent+Trespass+not+on+his+solitude%22&pg=PA116#v=onepage, Lectures and biographical sketches (1883), p.116
Montaigne; or, The Skeptic
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
“He thought it happier to be dead,
To die for Beauty, than live for bread.”
Beauty
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Titmouse http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1176/, st. 5
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
Widely misattributed to Emerson on the Internet, this quote is actually taken from Alfred North Whitehead's essay "Harvard: The Future" (The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936.)
Misattributed
The Snow-Storm
1840s, Poems (1847)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
English Traits
English Traits (1856), reprinted in The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. 2 (Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870), p. 206 ( full text at GoogleBooks http://books.google.com/books?id=21IRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA206)
“Whoever fights, whoever falls,
Justice conquers evermore.”
Voluntaries
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Ever from one who comes to-morrow
Men wait their good and truth to borrow.”
Merlin's Song II http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20584&c=323
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Nominalist and Realist
Character
1880s, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)
Introduction
1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836)
“A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.”
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)
“The silent organ loudest chants
The master's requiem.”
Dirge
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.”
Lectures and Biographical Sketches, The Preacher
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
To J.W. http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/to_jw.htm, st. 4
1840s, Poems (1847)
“Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
Thou dost mock at fate and care.”
To the humble Bee
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Days http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20591&c=323
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
“You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.”
October 1842
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.”
Uses of Great Men
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
